Henry Shaw, former Representative from North Carolina's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1857-1859	Representative	North Carolina's 1^st District
1853-1855	Representative	North Carolina's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1853 to Mar 1859, Shaw missed 138 of 1,149 roll call votes, which is 12.0%. 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 1853-Mar 1854	111	9	8.1%	8^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	40	13.1%	12^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	4	12.1%	37^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	24	15.5%	32^nd
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	10	9.7%	29^th
1858 Mar-May	179	25	14.0%	35^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	6	8.8%	13^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	20	10.3%	18^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