Horace Powers, former Representative from Vermont's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1899-1901	Representative	Vermont's 1^st District
1895-1899	Representative	Vermont's 1^st District
1893-1895	Representative	Vermont's 1^st District
1891-1893	Representative	Vermont's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Jan 1892 to Mar 1901, Powers missed 559 of 1,151 roll call votes, which is 48.6%. This is worse than the median of 31.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1901. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	57	18	31.6%	42^nd
1892 Apr-Jul	159	61	38.4%	44^th
1892 Aug-Aug	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	79	44	55.7%	87^th
1893 Aug-Nov	66	35	53.0%	59^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	131	108	82.4%	86^th
1894 Apr-Jul	101	67	66.3%	82^nd
1894 Aug-Aug	20	8	40.0%	48^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	11	22.9%	55^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	18	6	33.3%	79^th
1896 Mar-May	53	19	35.8%	52^nd
1896 Jun-Jun	28	9	32.1%	56^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	20	32.3%	41^st
1897 Mar-Jul	37	17	45.9%	72^nd
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	28	8	28.6%	61^st
1898 Mar-May	53	33	62.3%	98^th
1898 Jun-Jul	26	7	26.9%	44^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	16	43.2%	74^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	19	7	36.8%	65^th
1900 Mar-May	49	19	38.8%	69^th
1900 Jun-Jun	15	15	100.0%	93^rd
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	61	31	50.8%	81^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