Jacob Thompson, former Representative from Mississippi's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1849-1851	Representative	Mississippi's 1^st District
1847-1849	Representative	Mississippi's 1^st District
1845-1847	Representative	Mississippi
1843-1845	Representative	Mississippi
1839-1843	Representative	Mississippi

Voting Record

From Dec 1839 to Mar 1851, Thompson missed 913 of 3,975 roll call votes, which is 23.0%. This is worse than the median of 21.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1851. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	158	12	7.6%	10^th
1840 Mar-May	250	81	32.4%	30^th
1840 Jun-Jul	207	38	18.4%	0^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	24	19.5%	24^th
1841 May-Sep	263	262	99.6%	91^st
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	204	21	10.3%	18^th
1842 Apr-Jul	216	76	35.2%	73^rd
1842 Aug-Aug	116	12	10.3%	10^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	29	16.9%	30^th
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	136	16	11.8%	35^th
1844 Mar-May	207	21	10.1%	14^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	11	14.5%	31^st
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	168	24	14.3%	30^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	148	28	18.9%	37^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	31	11.8%	8^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	7	13.7%	23^rd
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	178	16	9.0%	5^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	91	39	42.9%	89^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	32	21.2%	41^st
1848 Aug-Aug	70	5	7.1%	5^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	60	38.7%	88^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	8	7.4%	21^st
1850 Mar-May	68	8	11.8%	21^st
1850 Jun-Aug	146	13	8.9%	22^nd
1850 Sep-Sep	117	16	13.7%	47^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	23	17.3%	37^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