John Letcher, former Representative from Virginia's 9th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1857-1859	Representative	Virginia's 9^th District
1855-1857	Representative	Virginia's 9^th District
1853-1855	Representative	Virginia's 9^th District
1851-1853	Representative	Virginia's 11^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1851 to Mar 1859, Letcher missed 296 of 2,321 roll call votes, which is 12.8%. This is better than the median of 22.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1859. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	96	8	8.3%	24^th
1852 Apr-Jul	178	21	11.8%	17^th
1852 Aug-Aug	64	12	18.8%	22^nd
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	8	7.0%	8^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	111	25	22.5%	58^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	55	18.0%	19^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	4	12.1%	37^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	12	7.7%	9^th
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	173	1	0.6%	2^nd
1856 Apr-Jul	200	55	27.5%	43^rd
1856 Aug-Aug	73	5	6.8%	29^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	1	2.3%	15^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	231	8	3.5%	8^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	13	12.6%	36^th
1858 Mar-May	179	11	6.1%	13^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	7	10.3%	17^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	194	50	25.8%	62^nd

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