Jesse Thomas, former Senator from Illinois

Dates	Title	Representing
1823-1829	Senator	Illinois
1818-1823	Senator	Illinois
1807-1809	Representative	Indiana

Voting Record

From Dec 1817 to Mar 1829, Thomas missed 132 of 925 roll call votes, which is 14.3%. This is worse than the median of 9.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1829. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1817-Apr 1818	17	17	100.0%	88^th
Dec 1818-Mar 1819	65	8	12.3%	67^th
1820 Jan-May	68	9	13.2%	55^th
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	52	5	9.6%	50^th
1822 Jan-May	61	2	3.3%	29^th
Dec 1822-Mar 1823	29	2	6.9%	33^rd
Dec 1823-May 1824	126	4	3.2%	38^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	48	3	6.3%	38^th
Dec 1825-May 1826	123	20	16.3%	63^rd
Dec 1826-Mar 1827	101	11	10.9%	65^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	173	26	15.0%	75^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	62	25	40.3%	86^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo