John Griffin, former Representative from South Carolina's 9th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1839-1841	Representative	South Carolina's 9^th District
1837-1839	Representative	South Carolina's 9^th District
1835-1837	Representative	South Carolina's 9^th District
1833-1835	Representative	South Carolina's 9^th District
1831-1833	Representative	South Carolina's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1831 to Mar 1841, Griffin missed 532 of 2,447 roll call votes, which is 21.7%. This is better 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
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1832 Mar-May	98	7	7.1%	21^st
1832 Jun-Jul	168	13	7.7%	23^rd
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	143	18	12.6%	18^th
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	35	1	2.9%	20^th
1834 Mar-May	91	22	24.2%	60^th
1834 Jun-Jun	94	11	11.7%	39^th
Dec 1834-Mar 1835	105	12	11.4%	32^nd
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	5	8.8%	47^th
1836 Mar-May	150	31	20.7%	44^th
1836 Jun-Jul	116	24	20.7%	39^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	35	25.7%	56^th
1837 Sep-Oct	54	8	14.8%	68^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	15	28.8%	73^rd
1838 Mar-May	120	32	26.7%	56^th
1838 Jun-Jul	100	18	18.0%	42^nd
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	141	34	24.1%	54^th
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	154	32	20.8%	61^st
1840 Mar-May	250	98	39.2%	53^rd
1840 Jun-Jul	207	91	44.0%	67^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	25	20.3%	27^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