James Ford, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 9th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1831-1833	Representative	Pennsylvania's 9^th District
1829-1831	Representative	Pennsylvania's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1829 to Mar 1833, Ford missed 190 of 733 roll call votes, which is 25.9%. This is worse than the median of 16.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1833. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1829-May 1830	183	48	26.2%	83^rd
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	88	21	23.9%	77^th
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	53	14	26.4%	85^th
1832 Mar-May	98	19	19.4%	57^th
1832 Jun-Jul	168	49	29.2%	75^th
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	143	39	27.3%	68^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