James Allen, former Representative from Illinois's -1th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1863-1865	Representative	Illinois
1855-1857	Representative	Illinois's 7^th District
1853-1855	Representative	Illinois's 7^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1853 to Mar 1865, Allen missed 404 of 1,758 roll call votes, which is 23.0%. This is better than the median of 28.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1865. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	112	13	11.6%	33^rd
1854 Apr-Jul	305	56	18.4%	25^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	6	18.2%	25^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	29	18.7%	33^rd
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	173	27	15.6%	56^th
1856 Apr-Jul	156	54	34.6%	44^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	230	39	17.0%	63^rd
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	124	22	17.7%	43^rd
1864 Mar-May	170	49	28.8%	46^th
1864 Jun-Jul	129	64	49.6%	82^nd
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	171	45	26.3%	48^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