John Dawson, former Representative from Virginia's 11th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1813-1815	Representative	Virginia's 11^th District
1811-1813	Representative	Virginia's 10^th District
1807-1811	Representative	Virginia's 10^th District
1805-1807	Representative	Virginia's 10^th District
1803-1805	Representative	Virginia's 10^th District
1801-1803	Representative	Virginia's 15^th District
1799-1801	Representative	Virginia's 15^th District
1797-1799	Representative	Virginia's 15^th District

Voting Record

From Jun 1797 to Dec 1814, Dawson missed 383 of 1,686 roll call votes, which is 22.7%. This is worse than the median of 18.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1814. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1797 Jun-Jul	34	0	0.0%	0^th
Nov 1797-Feb 1798	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1798 Mar-Jun	42	2	4.8%	42^nd
1798 Jul-Jul	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1798-Mar 1799	44	2	4.5%	42^nd
Dec 1799-May 1800	54	5	9.3%	50^th
Nov 1800-Mar 1801	42	2	4.8%	42^nd
Dec 1801-May 1802	94	17	18.1%	47^th
Dec 1802-Mar 1803	48	8	16.7%	59^th
Oct 1803-Mar 1804	96	17	17.7%	62^nd
Nov 1804-Mar 1805	35	7	20.0%	65^th
Dec 1805-Apr 1806	103	33	32.0%	77^th
Dec 1806-Mar 1807	55	22	40.0%	83^rd
1807 Oct-Dec	35	9	25.7%	85^th
1808 Jan-Mar	49	5	10.2%	41^st
1808 Apr-Apr	35	5	14.3%	39^th
Nov 1808-Mar 1809	111	27	24.3%	72^nd
1809 May-Jun	36	6	16.7%	58^th
Dec 1809-Jan 1810	29	5	17.2%	73^rd
1810 Feb-Apr	121	40	33.1%	79^th
1810 May-May	3	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1810-Mar 1811	104	24	23.1%	64^th
Nov 1811-Feb 1812	82	18	22.0%	81^st
1812 Mar-Jun	126	17	13.5%	53^rd
1812 Jul-Jul	14	1	7.1%	36^th
Nov 1812-Mar 1813	90	22	24.4%	79^th
1813 May-Aug	72	25	34.7%	78^th
Dec 1813-Apr 1814	96	63	65.6%	94^th
Dec 1814-Feb 1815	1	1	100.0%	99^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