Jehu Jones, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 8th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1857-1859	Representative	Pennsylvania's 8^th District
1855-1857	Representative	Pennsylvania's 8^th District
1853-1855	Representative	Pennsylvania's 8^th District
1851-1853	Representative	Pennsylvania's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1851 to Jun 1858, Jones missed 743 of 2,065 roll call votes, which is 36.0%. This is worse than the median of 22.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1858. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	95	17	17.9%	43^rd
1852 Apr-Jul	178	58	32.6%	83^rd
1852 Aug-Aug	64	27	42.2%	72^nd
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	33	28.9%	50^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	54	21	38.9%	85^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	168	55.1%	92^nd
1854 Aug-Aug	33	30	90.9%	94^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	49	31.6%	75^th
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	173	50	28.9%	86^th
1856 Apr-Jul	198	94	47.5%	86^th
1856 Aug-Aug	73	38	52.1%	91^st
1856 Aug-Aug	44	1	2.3%	15^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	230	133	57.8%	96^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	102	8	7.8%	23^rd
1858 Mar-May	179	6	3.4%	4^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	10	14.7%	27^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