Henry Wise, former Representative from Virginia's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1843-1845	Representative	Virginia's 7^th District
1839-1843	Representative	Virginia's 8^th District
1837-1839	Representative	Virginia's 8^th District
1835-1837	Representative	Virginia's 8^th District
1833-1835	Representative	Virginia's 8^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1833 to Feb 1844, Wise missed 1,203 of 3,036 roll call votes, which is 39.6%. This is worse than the median of 23.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1844. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	35	5	14.3%	53^rd
1834 Mar-May	91	23	25.3%	63^rd
1834 Jun-Jun	94	10	10.6%	16^th
Dec 1834-Mar 1835	105	14	13.3%	29^th
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	11	19.3%	79^th
1836 Mar-May	150	51	34.0%	71^st
1836 Jun-Jul	116	29	25.0%	65^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	107	78.7%	96^th
1837 Sep-Oct	54	6	11.1%	48^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	17	32.7%	67^th
1838 Mar-May	120	59	49.2%	84^th
1838 Jun-Jul	100	49	49.0%	85^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	140	67	47.9%	81^st
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	164	91	55.5%	91^st
1840 Mar-May	250	161	64.4%	93^rd
1840 Jun-Jul	207	156	75.4%	95^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	36	29.3%	49^th
1841 May-Sep	253	65	25.7%	63^rd
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	204	51	25.0%	55^th
1842 Apr-Jul	216	90	41.7%	82^nd
1842 Aug-Aug	116	28	24.1%	58^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	33	19.2%	47^th
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	81	44	54.3%	90^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo