Henry Starkweather, former Representative from Connecticut's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1875-1877	Representative	Connecticut's 3^rd District
1873-1875	Representative	Connecticut's 3^rd District
1867-1873	Representative	Connecticut's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Jul 1867 to Jan 1876, Starkweather missed 452 of 2,155 roll call votes, which is 21.0%. This is better than the median of 25.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1876. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1867 Jul-Jul	35	11	31.4%	63^rd
1867 Nov-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	140	32	22.9%	52^nd
1868 Mar-May	125	57	45.6%	62^nd
1868 Jun-Jul	150	28	18.7%	10^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	1	100.0%	43^rd
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	197	33	16.8%	24^th
1869 Mar-Apr	20	5	25.0%	63^rd
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	71	4	5.6%	12^th
1870 Mar-May	150	28	18.7%	32^nd
1870 Jun-Jul	169	38	22.5%	51^st
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	158	20	12.7%	27^th
1871 Mar-Apr	21	3	14.3%	61^st
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	89	15	16.9%	51^st
1872 Mar-May	154	42	27.3%	51^st
1872 Jun-Jun	35	3	8.6%	19^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	150	24	16.0%	28^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	76	13	17.1%	59^th
1874 Mar-May	101	13	12.9%	36^th
1874 Jun-Jun	59	10	16.9%	49^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	233	70	30.0%	66^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	16	2	12.5%	41^st

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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo