John Dennis, former Representative from Maryland's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1839-1841	Representative	Maryland's 1^st District
1837-1839	Representative	Maryland's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Sep 1837 to Mar 1841, Dennis missed 468 of 1,207 roll call votes, which is 38.8%. This is worse than the median of 29.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1841. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1837 Sep-Oct	54	6	11.1%	53^rd
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	19	36.5%	85^th
1838 Mar-May	120	57	47.5%	88^th
1838 Jun-Jul	100	24	24.0%	59^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	140	89	63.6%	98^th
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	163	53	32.5%	82^nd
1840 Mar-May	250	132	52.8%	78^th
1840 Jun-Jul	207	32	15.5%	14^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	121	56	46.3%	75^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