Israel Washburn Jr., former Representative from Maine's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1859-1861	Representative	Maine's 5^th District
1857-1859	Representative	Maine's 5^th District
1855-1857	Representative	Maine's 5^th District
1853-1855	Representative	Maine's 5^th District
1851-1853	Representative	Maine's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1851 to Dec 1860, Washburn missed 448 of 2,633 roll call votes, which is 17.0%. This is better than the median of 23.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1860. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	91	18	19.8%	48^th
1852 Apr-Jul	178	50	28.1%	73^rd
1852 Aug-Aug	64	18	28.1%	59^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	113	36	31.9%	61^st
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	110	24	21.8%	57^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	56	18.4%	30^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	8	24.2%	74^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	23	14.8%	32^nd
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	174	6	3.4%	15^th
1856 Apr-Jul	200	18	9.0%	8^th
1856 Aug-Aug	73	8	11.0%	44^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	8	18.2%	83^rd
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	231	41	17.7%	53^rd
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	99	9	9.1%	33^rd
1858 Mar-May	178	24	13.5%	38^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	10	14.7%	30^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	32	16.4%	47^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	1	1.4%	10^th
1860 Mar-May	126	18	14.3%	21^st
1860 Jun-Jun	97	31	32.0%	50^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	30	9	30.0%	64^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