Jeremiah Murphy, former Representative from Iowa's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1885-1887	Representative	Iowa's 2^nd District
1883-1885	Representative	Iowa's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1883 to Mar 1887, Murphy missed 236 of 630 roll call votes, which is 37.5%. This is worse than the median of 28.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1887. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	34	8	23.5%	63^rd
1884 Mar-May	70	28	40.0%	78^th
1884 Jun-Jul	82	45	54.9%	76^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	146	56	38.4%	75^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	37	14	37.8%	77^th
1886 Apr-Jul	153	47	30.7%	55^th
1886 Aug-Aug	6	3	50.0%	60^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	102	35	34.3%	70^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