Jeremiah Rusk, former Representative from Wisconsin's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1875-1877	Representative	Wisconsin's 7^th District
1873-1875	Representative	Wisconsin's 7^th District
1871-1873	Representative	Wisconsin's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1871 to Mar 1877, Rusk missed 299 of 1,307 roll call votes, which is 22.9%. This is better than the median of 25.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1877. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1871 Mar-Apr	85	20	23.5%	80^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	89	18	20.2%	68^th
1872 Mar-May	156	41	26.3%	43^rd
1872 Jun-Jun	35	4	11.4%	30^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	150	31	20.7%	49^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	78	9	11.5%	34^th
1874 Mar-May	100	22	22.0%	59^th
1874 Jun-Jun	59	5	8.5%	25^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	231	72	31.2%	68^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	59	9	15.3%	48^th
1876 Apr-Jul	104	32	30.8%	46^th
1876 Aug-Aug	37	19	51.4%	56^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	124	17	13.7%	29^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