John Lumpkin, former Representative from Georgia's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1855-1857	Representative	Georgia's 5^th District
1847-1849	Representative	Georgia's 5^th District
1845-1847	Representative	Georgia's 5^th District
1843-1845	Representative	Georgia

Voting Record

From Dec 1843 to Mar 1857, Lumpkin missed 398 of 2,412 roll call votes, which is 16.5%. This is better than the median of 25.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1857. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	138	12	8.7%	26^th
1844 Mar-May	207	74	35.7%	84^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	16	21.1%	42^nd
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	167	20	12.0%	16^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	149	30	20.1%	37^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	46	17.5%	47^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	3	5.9%	11^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	175	26	14.9%	21^st
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	90	17	18.9%	50^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	21	13.9%	28^th
1848 Aug-Aug	70	12	17.1%	50^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	40	25.8%	60^th
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	173	5	2.9%	6^th
1856 Apr-Jul	200	23	11.5%	11^th
1856 Aug-Aug	73	10	13.7%	38^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	3	6.8%	38^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	230	40	17.4%	41^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