George Hopkins, former Representative from Virginia's 13th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1857-1859	Representative	Virginia's 13^th District
1845-1847	Representative	Virginia's 13^th District
1843-1845	Representative	Virginia's 13^th District
1839-1843	Representative	Virginia's 18^th District
1837-1839	Representative	Virginia's 18^th District
1835-1837	Representative	Virginia's 18^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1835 to Mar 1859, Hopkins missed 851 of 4,412 roll call votes, which is 19.3%. This is better than the median of 22.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1859. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	18	31.6%	75^th
1836 Mar-May	150	33	22.0%	25^th
1836 Jun-Jul	116	35	30.2%	0^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	37	27.2%	33^rd
1837 Sep-Oct	54	16	29.6%	50^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	6	11.5%	20^th
1838 Mar-May	120	14	11.7%	0^th
1838 Jun-Jul	100	14	14.0%	0^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	143	65	45.5%	83^rd
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	164	27	16.5%	40^th
1840 Mar-May	250	112	44.8%	40^th
1840 Jun-Jul	207	71	34.3%	0^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	122	36	29.5%	17^th
1841 May-Sep	262	23	8.8%	0^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	203	20	9.9%	0^th
1842 Apr-Jul	216	30	13.9%	20^th
1842 Aug-Aug	116	12	10.3%	20^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	16	9.3%	0^th
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	138	19	13.8%	40^th
1844 Mar-May	207	32	15.5%	35^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	4	5.3%	5^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	167	27	16.2%	25^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	147	26	17.7%	33^rd
1846 Apr-Jul	263	41	15.6%	29^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	10	19.6%	20^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	178	30	16.9%	24^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	5	4.9%	12^th
1858 Mar-May	179	48	26.8%	66^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	9	13.2%	22^nd
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	15	7.7%	11^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000