John Harris, former Representative from Virginia's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1877-1881	Representative	Virginia's 7^th District
1875-1877	Representative	Virginia's 7^th District
1873-1875	Representative	Virginia's 7^th District
1871-1873	Representative	Virginia's 6^th District
1859-1861	Representative	Virginia's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1859 to Mar 1881, Harris missed 492 of 2,547 roll call votes, which is 19.3%. This is better than the median of 26.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1881. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	20	29.0%	87^th
1860 Mar-May	126	15	11.9%	20^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	5	3.5%	0^th
1871 Mar-Apr	84	8	9.5%	52^nd
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	89	10	11.2%	32^nd
1872 Mar-May	156	27	17.3%	36^th
1872 Jun-Jun	35	2	5.7%	9^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	149	29	19.5%	35^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	78	18	23.1%	67^th
1874 Mar-May	101	15	14.9%	50^th
1874 Jun-Jun	59	6	10.2%	33^rd
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	231	47	20.3%	57^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	60	9	15.0%	52^nd
1876 Apr-Jul	106	35	33.0%	52^nd
1876 Aug-Aug	37	32	86.5%	87^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	123	24	19.5%	54^th
1877 Oct-Dec	36	14	38.9%	91^st
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	55	9	16.4%	57^th
1878 Mar-May	102	17	16.7%	42^nd
1878 Jun-Jun	64	9	14.1%	40^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	115	16	13.9%	35^th
1879 Mar-Jul	134	42	31.3%	60^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	34	11	32.4%	65^th
1880 Mar-May	115	46	40.0%	68^th
1880 Jun-Jun	32	3	9.4%	17^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	119	23	19.3%	31^st

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