John Kerr, former Senator from Maryland

Dates	Title	Representing
1841-1843	Senator	Maryland
1831-1833	Representative	Maryland's 7^th District
1827-1829	Representative	Maryland's 7^th District
1825-1827	Representative	Maryland's 7^th District

Voting Record

From Jan 1841 to Mar 1843, Kerr missed 308 of 875 roll call votes, which is 35.2%. This is worse than the median of 18.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1843. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	60	30	50.0%	90^th
1841 Jun-Sep	317	72	22.7%	84^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	44	18	40.9%	74^th
1842 Apr-Jul	194	76	39.2%	91^st
1842 Aug-Aug	127	78	61.4%	94^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	127	34	26.8%	72^nd
1841 Mar-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo