John Niles, former Senator from Connecticut

Dates	Title	Representing
1843-1849	Senator	Connecticut
1835-1839	Senator	Connecticut

Voting Record

From Dec 1835 to Mar 1849, Niles missed 255 of 1,855 roll call votes, which is 13.7%. This is better than the median of 19.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1849. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1836 Mar-May	137	12	8.8%	22^nd
1836 Jun-Jul	86	16	18.6%	22^nd
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	187	17	9.1%	22^nd
1837 Sep-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	63	8	12.7%	33^rd
1838 Mar-May	91	6	6.6%	11^th
1838 Jun-Jul	78	2	2.6%	11^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	134	6	4.5%	22^nd
1844 Jan-Feb	28	27	96.4%	95^th
1844 Mar-May	106	75	70.8%	96^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	26	34.2%	78^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	95	4	4.2%	19^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	29	1	3.4%	16^th
1846 Apr-Jul	167	18	10.8%	24^th
1846 Aug-Aug	50	7	14.0%	40^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	126	6	4.8%	7^th
1845 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	82	6	7.3%	26^th
1848 Apr-Jul	116	10	8.6%	9^th
1848 Aug-Aug	66	7	10.6%	16^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	80	1	1.3%	2^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