John Davis, former Representative from Indiana's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1859-1861	Representative	Indiana's 7^th District
1857-1859	Representative	Indiana's 7^th District
1853-1855	Representative	Indiana's 7^th District
1851-1853	Representative	Indiana's 7^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1851 to Mar 1861, Davis missed 202 of 2,030 roll call votes, which is 10.0%. This is better than the median of 23.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1861. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	93	10	10.8%	26^th
1852 Apr-Jul	178	25	14.0%	27^th
1852 Aug-Aug	64	13	20.3%	32^nd
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	15	13.2%	17^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	112	2	1.8%	4^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	18	5.9%	7^th
1854 Aug-Aug	32	5	15.6%	63^rd
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	10	6.5%	7^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	15	14.6%	50^th
1858 Mar-May	179	10	5.6%	14^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	6	8.8%	18^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	194	11	5.7%	9^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	5	7.2%	32^nd
1860 Mar-May	126	33	26.2%	50^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	15	15.5%	21^st
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	9	6.4%	8^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