James Madison, former President

Dates	Title	Representing
1809-1817	President
1795-1797	Representative	Virginia's 15^th District
1793-1795	Representative	Virginia's 15^th District
1791-1793	Representative	Virginia's 5^th District
1789-1791	Representative	Virginia's 5^th District

Voting Record

From May 1789 to Mar 1797, Madison missed 57 of 363 roll call votes, which is 15.7%. This is better than the median of 15.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1797. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1789 May-May	2	0	0.0%	0^th
1789 Jun-Aug	11	1	9.1%	42^nd
1789 Sep-Sep	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1790 Feb-Mar	2	0	0.0%	0^th
1790 Apr-Jun	25	2	8.0%	44^th
1790 Jul-Aug	24	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1790-Mar 1791	23	4	17.4%	59^th
1791 Nov-Dec	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1792 Jan-Mar	34	1	2.9%	9^th
1792 Apr-May	20	2	10.0%	50^th
Nov 1792-Mar 1793	41	6	14.6%	50^th
1794 Jan-Feb	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1794 Mar-May	41	6	14.6%	64^th
1794 Jun-Jun	6	2	33.3%	62^nd
Nov 1794-Mar 1795	15	1	6.7%	16^th
1796 Jan-Jan	3	1	33.3%	64^th
1796 Mar-May	40	12	30.0%	73^rd
Dec 1796-Mar 1797	40	19	47.5%	89^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo