Hendrick Wright, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 12th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1877-1881	Representative	Pennsylvania's 12^th District
1861-1863	Representative	Pennsylvania's 12^th District
1853-1855	Representative	Pennsylvania's 12^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1853 to Mar 1881, Wright missed 749 of 2,040 roll call votes, which is 36.7%. This is worse than the median of 26.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1881. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	113	27	23.9%	25^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	112	36.7%	25^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	6	18.2%	25^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	42	27.1%	25^th
1861 Jul-Aug	50	11	22.0%	58^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	74	8	10.8%	8^th
1862 Mar-May	113	66	58.4%	83^rd
1862 Jun-Jul	122	95	77.9%	91^st
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	269	151	56.1%	82^nd
1877 Oct-Dec	35	5	14.3%	51^st
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	55	7	12.7%	42^nd
1878 Mar-May	102	12	11.8%	26^th
1878 Jun-Jun	64	45	70.3%	94^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	116	26	22.4%	67^th
1879 Mar-Jul	134	38	28.4%	54^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	34	5	14.7%	31^st
1880 Mar-May	115	33	28.7%	39^th
1880 Jun-Jun	32	2	6.3%	10^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	119	58	48.7%	86^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