John Crittenden, former Representative from Kentucky's 8th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1861-1863	Representative	Kentucky's 8^th District
1855-1861	Senator	Kentucky
1842-1849	Senator	Kentucky
1835-1841	Senator	Kentucky
1817-1819	Senator	Kentucky

Voting Record

From Jul 1861 to Mar 1863, Crittenden missed 306 of 627 roll call votes, which is 48.8%. This is worse than the median of 27.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1863. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1861 Jul-Aug	52	21	40.4%	77^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	74	26	35.1%	72^nd
1862 Mar-May	113	30	26.5%	43^rd
1862 Jun-Jul	121	58	47.9%	74^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	267	171	64.0%	88^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