Henry Murphy, former Representative from New York's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1847-1849	Representative	New York's 2^nd District
1843-1845	Representative	New York's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1843 to Mar 1849, Murphy missed 415 of 1,055 roll call votes, which is 39.3%. This is worse than the median of 23.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1849. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	136	35	25.7%	64^th
1844 Mar-May	207	74	35.7%	80^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	18	23.7%	58^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	168	76	45.2%	88^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	92	28	30.4%	76^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	99	65.6%	94^th
1848 Aug-Aug	70	39	55.7%	87^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	46	29.7%	70^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