John Miller, former Representative from Missouri's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1855-1857	Representative	Missouri's 5^th District
1853-1855	Representative	Missouri's 5^th District
1851-1853	Representative	Missouri's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1851 to Aug 1856, Miller missed 595 of 1,278 roll call votes, which is 46.6%. This is worse than the median of 25.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Aug 1856. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	92	17	18.5%	46^th
1852 Apr-Jul	178	35	19.7%	35^th
1852 Aug-Aug	63	29	46.0%	73^rd
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	28	24.6%	45^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	108	14	13.0%	30^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	88	28.9%	52^nd
1854 Aug-Aug	33	15	45.5%	83^rd
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	139	89.7%	97^th
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	174	174	100.0%	99^th
1856 Apr-Jul	55	55	100.0%	98^th
1856 Aug-Aug	1	1	100.0%	97^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