John Dickinson, former Representative from New York's 9th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1829-1831	Representative	New York's 9^th District
1827-1829	Representative	New York's 9^th District
1821-1823	Representative	New York's 10^th District
1819-1821	Representative	New York's 10^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1819 to Mar 1831, Dickinson missed 170 of 744 roll call votes, which is 22.8%. This is worse than the median of 14.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1831. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1819-May 1820	88	21	23.9%	76^th
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	59	9	15.3%	56^th
Dec 1821-May 1822	71	13	18.3%	69^th
1823 Jan-Mar	24	7	29.2%	83^rd
Dec 1827-May 1828	158	24	15.2%	56^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	73	15	20.5%	53^rd
Dec 1829-May 1830	183	58	31.7%	86^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	88	23	26.1%	76^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