Jackson Betts, former Representative from Ohio's 8th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1961-1972	Representative	Ohio's 8^th District
1959-1960	Representative	Ohio's 8^th District
1957-1958	Representative	Ohio's 8^th District
1953-1956	Representative	Ohio's 8^th District
1951-1952	Representative	Ohio's 8^th District

Voting Record

From Jan 1951 to Oct 1972, Betts missed 156 of 3,246 roll call votes, which is 4.8%. This is better than the median of 8.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1972. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1951 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Apr-Jun	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jul-Sep	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Apr-Jun	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jul-Jul	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Aug	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	24	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Aug	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Apr-Jun	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jul-Aug	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jul-Aug	52	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jul-Aug	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Jan-Apr	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Sep-Sep	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Feb-Apr	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 May-Aug	70	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Sep-Sep	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	3	10.7%	70^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	4	7.5%	43^rd
1965 Jul-Sep	98	4	4.1%	31^st
1965 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	6	11.8%	55^th
1966 Jul-Sep	72	6	8.3%	34^th
1966 Oct-Oct	39	7	17.9%	46^th
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	56	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jul-Sep	56	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	77	1	1.3%	55^th
1968 Jul-Sep	91	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.3%	54^th
1969 Apr-Jun	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jul-Sep	45	3	6.7%	40^th
1969 Oct-Dec	88	5	5.7%	26^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	1	2.9%	18^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	5	6.8%	19^th
1970 Jul-Sep	75	8	10.7%	48^th
1970 Oct-Dec	81	7	8.6%	27^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	54^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	11	12.2%	47^th
1971 Jul-Sep	72	1	1.4%	9^th
1971 Oct-Dec	132	10	7.6%	32^nd
1972 Jan-Mar	62	4	6.5%	41^st
1972 Apr-Jun	112	20	17.9%	65^th
1972 Jul-Sep	99	38	38.4%	92^nd
1972 Oct-Oct	50	9	18.0%	55^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