John Barbour, former Representative from Virginia's 15th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1831-1833	Representative	Virginia's 15^th District
1829-1831	Representative	Virginia's 15^th District
1827-1829	Representative	Virginia's 15^th District
1825-1827	Representative	Virginia's 15^th District
1823-1825	Representative	Virginia's 15^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1823 to Mar 1833, Barbour missed 360 of 1,167 roll call votes, which is 30.8%. This is worse than the median of 16.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1833. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1823-May 1824	79	26	32.9%	87^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	14	4	28.6%	79^th
1826 Jan-May	57	10	17.5%	56^th
1827 Jan-Mar	53	15	28.3%	88^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	158	38	24.1%	85^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	73	34	46.6%	89^th
Dec 1829-May 1830	183	58	31.7%	88^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	88	46	52.3%	98^th
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	53	20	37.7%	91^st
1832 Mar-May	98	25	25.5%	69^th
1832 Jun-Jul	168	28	16.7%	43^rd
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	143	56	39.2%	85^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