John Foster, former Representative from Indiana's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1909	Representative	Indiana's 1^st District
1905-1907	Representative	Indiana's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1905 to Mar 1909, Foster missed 139 of 447 roll call votes, which is 31.1%. This is worse than the median of 29.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1909. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	25	9	36.0%	71^st
1906 Mar-May	57	16	28.1%	44^th
1906 Jun-Jun	20	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	34	16	47.1%	85^th
Dec 1907-May 1908	269	86	32.0%	48^th
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	42	12	28.6%	52^nd

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