John Heard, former Representative from Missouri's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1893-1895	Representative	Missouri's 7^th District
1891-1893	Representative	Missouri's 6^th District
1889-1891	Representative	Missouri's 6^th District
1887-1889	Representative	Missouri's 6^th District
1885-1887	Representative	Missouri's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1885 to Mar 1895, Heard missed 670 of 1,860 roll call votes, which is 36.0%. This is better than the median of 36.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1895. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	37	5	13.5%	36^th
1886 Apr-Jul	155	69	44.5%	86^th
1886 Aug-Aug	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	103	34	33.0%	76^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	39	9	23.1%	51^st
1888 Mar-May	104	67	64.4%	85^th
1888 Jun-Aug	47	14	29.8%	32^nd
1888 Sep-Oct	16	9	56.3%	48^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	113	39	34.5%	65^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	70	33	47.1%	69^th
1890 Mar-May	107	54	50.5%	94^th
1890 Jun-Aug	169	69	40.8%	53^rd
1890 Sep-Sep	53	32	60.4%	52^nd
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	58	33.5%	55^th
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	58	15	25.9%	36^th
1892 Apr-Jul	159	25	15.7%	11^th
1892 Aug-Aug	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	78	34	43.6%	68^th
1893 Aug-Nov	67	9	13.4%	15^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	36	27.1%	36^th
1894 Apr-Jul	101	35	34.7%	37^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	9	45.0%	55^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	15	31.3%	63^rd

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