John Hickman, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 6th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1861-1863	Representative	Pennsylvania's 6^th District
1859-1861	Representative	Pennsylvania's 6^th District
1857-1859	Representative	Pennsylvania's 6^th District
1855-1857	Representative	Pennsylvania's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1855 to Mar 1863, Hickman missed 1,212 of 2,321 roll call votes, which is 52.2%. This is worse than the median of 27.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1863. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	174	78	44.8%	94^th
1856 Apr-Jul	200	131	65.5%	88^th
1856 Aug-Aug	73	2	2.7%	25^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	4	9.1%	50^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	231	180	77.9%	93^rd
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	102	26	25.5%	80^th
1858 Mar-May	179	123	68.7%	97^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	68	100.0%	97^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	194	65	33.5%	90^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	29	42.0%	95^th
1860 Mar-May	126	48	38.1%	82^nd
1860 Jun-Jun	97	63	64.9%	94^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	62	44.0%	92^nd
1861 Jul-Aug	48	28	58.3%	88^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	74	32	43.2%	81^st
1862 Mar-May	112	36	32.1%	58^th
1862 Jun-Jul	120	100	83.3%	93^rd
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	269	137	50.9%	79^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