James Robinson, former Representative from Illinois's 12th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1873-1875	Representative	Illinois's 12^th District
1871-1873	Representative	Illinois's 8^th District
1863-1865	Representative	Illinois's 11^th District
1861-1863	Representative	Illinois's 7^th District
1859-1861	Representative	Illinois's 7^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1859 to Mar 1875, Robinson missed 1,187 of 2,625 roll call votes, which is 45.2%. This is worse than the median of 22.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1875. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	3	4.3%	22^nd
1860 Mar-May	126	32	25.4%	70^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	72	74.2%	83^rd
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	26	18.4%	52^nd
1861 Jul-Aug	49	12	24.5%	67^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	74	17	23.0%	70^th
1862 Mar-May	112	52	46.4%	80^th
1862 Jun-Jul	120	68	56.7%	89^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	269	92	34.2%	68^th
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	125	42	33.6%	92^nd
1864 Mar-May	170	78	45.9%	92^nd
1864 Jun-Jul	128	27	21.1%	62^nd
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	171	145	84.8%	92^nd
1871 Mar-Apr	84	29	34.5%	85^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	89	51	57.3%	95^th
1872 Mar-May	155	93	60.0%	96^th
1872 Jun-Jun	32	31	96.9%	91^st
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	150	54	36.0%	82^nd
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	78	40	51.3%	95^th
1874 Mar-May	99	50	50.5%	92^nd
1874 Jun-Jun	59	10	16.9%	40^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	228	163	71.5%	96^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