James Strong, former Representative from New York's 8th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1829-1831	Representative	New York's 8^th District
1827-1829	Representative	New York's 8^th District
1825-1827	Representative	New York's 8^th District
1823-1825	Representative	New York's 8^th District
1819-1821	Representative	New York's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1819 to Mar 1831, Strong missed 119 of 852 roll call votes, which is 14.0%. This is better than the median of 14.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1831. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1819-May 1820	88	5	5.7%	24^th
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	59	12	20.3%	64^th
Dec 1823-May 1824	79	7	8.9%	45^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	14	8	57.1%	96^th
1826 Jan-May	57	14	24.6%	74^th
1827 Jan-Mar	53	4	7.5%	32^nd
Dec 1827-May 1828	158	22	13.9%	52^nd
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	73	7	9.6%	26^th
Dec 1829-May 1830	183	24	13.1%	45^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	88	16	18.2%	59^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