Jacob Thornburgh, former Representative from Tennessee's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1877-1879	Representative	Tennessee's 2^nd District
1875-1877	Representative	Tennessee's 2^nd District
1873-1875	Representative	Tennessee's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1873 to Mar 1879, Thornburgh missed 372 of 1,158 roll call votes, which is 32.1%. This is worse than the median of 21.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1879. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	78	11	14.1%	46^th
1874 Mar-May	96	30	31.3%	69^th
1874 Jun-Jun	59	6	10.2%	26^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	233	44	18.9%	46^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	59	8	13.6%	48^th
1876 Apr-Jul	105	29	27.6%	40^th
1876 Aug-Aug	37	5	13.5%	21^st
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	124	20	16.1%	44^th
1877 Oct-Dec	35	5	14.3%	51^st
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	52	20	38.5%	89^th
1878 Mar-May	101	35	34.7%	84^th
1878 Jun-Jun	64	56	87.5%	97^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	115	103	89.6%	98^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