John Caskie, former Representative from Virginia's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1857-1859	Representative	Virginia's 3^rd District
1855-1857	Representative	Virginia's 3^rd District
1853-1855	Representative	Virginia's 3^rd District
1851-1853	Representative	Virginia's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1851 to Mar 1859, Caskie missed 542 of 2,320 roll call votes, which is 23.4%. This is worse than the median of 22.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1859. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	96	30	31.3%	76^th
1852 Apr-Jul	177	35	19.8%	42^nd
1852 Aug-Aug	64	23	35.9%	67^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	37	32.5%	67^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	111	38	34.2%	75^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	62	20.3%	31^st
1854 Aug-Aug	33	1	3.0%	6^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	28	18.1%	36^th
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	173	34	19.7%	65^th
1856 Apr-Jul	200	58	29.0%	48^th
1856 Aug-Aug	73	20	27.4%	69^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	3	6.8%	48^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	230	43	18.7%	51^st
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	29	28.2%	71^st
1858 Mar-May	179	50	27.9%	67^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	8	11.8%	20^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	43	22.1%	53^rd

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