John Chambers, former Representative from Kentucky's 12th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1837-1839	Representative	Kentucky's 12^th District
1835-1837	Representative	Kentucky's 12^th District
1827-1829	Representative	Kentucky's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1828 to Mar 1839, Chambers missed 226 of 1,001 roll call votes, which is 22.6%. This is better than the median of 23.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1839. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	73	26	35.6%	96^th
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	3	5.3%	26^th
1836 Mar-May	150	57	38.0%	79^th
1836 Jun-Jul	116	32	27.6%	64^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	23	16.9%	30^th
1837 Sep-Oct	54	3	5.6%	22^nd
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	6	11.5%	27^th
1838 Mar-May	120	31	25.8%	47^th
1838 Jun-Jul	100	18	18.0%	34^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	143	27	18.9%	33^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