John Mitchell, former Senator from Pennsylvania

Dates	Title	Representing
1881-1887	Senator	Pennsylvania
1877-1881	Representative	Pennsylvania's 16^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1881 to Mar 1887, Mitchell missed 862 of 1,647 roll call votes, which is 52.3%. This is worse than the median of 28.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1887. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	94	14	14.9%	37^th
1882 Apr-Jul	207	99	47.8%	80^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	38	100.0%	92^nd
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	360	237	65.8%	92^nd
1881 Mar-Mar	13	1	7.7%	65^th
1881 Oct-Oct	61	4	6.6%	8^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	64	25	39.1%	66^th
1884 Mar-May	111	43	38.7%	58^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	2	2.6%	0^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	166	30	18.1%	29^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	62	47	75.8%	88^th
1886 Apr-Jul	232	231	99.6%	97^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	12	100.0%	84^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	140	78	55.7%	81^st
1885 Mar-Apr	9	1	11.1%	28^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