Jesse Norton, former Representative from Illinois's 6th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1863-1865	Representative	Illinois's 6^th District
1855-1857	Representative	Illinois's 3^rd District
1853-1855	Representative	Illinois's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1853 to Mar 1865, Norton missed 417 of 1,921 roll call votes, which is 21.7%. This is better than the median of 28.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1865. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	108	12	11.1%	25^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	71	23.3%	42^nd
1854 Aug-Aug	33	13	39.4%	67^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	24	15.5%	25^th
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	174	16	9.2%	22^nd
1856 Apr-Jul	200	96	48.0%	67^th
1856 Aug-Aug	73	5	6.8%	38^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	230	37	16.1%	50^th
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	130	18	13.8%	31^st
1864 Mar-May	170	57	33.5%	53^rd
1864 Jun-Jul	128	41	32.0%	58^th
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	171	27	15.8%	26^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