John Packer, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 14th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1875-1877	Representative	Pennsylvania's 14^th District
1873-1875	Representative	Pennsylvania's 14^th District
1869-1873	Representative	Pennsylvania's 14^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1869 to Mar 1877, Packer missed 474 of 1,930 roll call votes, which is 24.6%. This is better than the median of 25.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1877. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1869 Mar-Apr	81	18	22.2%	53^rd
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	71	27	38.0%	85^th
1870 Mar-May	150	31	20.7%	44^th
1870 Jun-Jul	170	31	18.2%	29^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	155	34	21.9%	49^th
1871 Mar-Apr	85	16	18.8%	70^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	89	10	11.2%	36^th
1872 Mar-May	154	42	27.3%	51^st
1872 Jun-Jun	35	2	5.7%	9^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	150	49	32.7%	77^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	78	16	20.5%	67^th
1874 Mar-May	101	7	6.9%	20^th
1874 Jun-Jun	59	15	25.4%	65^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	232	104	44.8%	86^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	58	11	19.0%	55^th
1876 Apr-Jul	103	28	27.2%	35^th
1876 Aug-Aug	37	9	24.3%	33^rd
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	122	24	19.7%	50^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