John Patton, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 20th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1887-1889	Representative	Pennsylvania's 20^th District
1861-1863	Representative	Pennsylvania's 24^th District

Voting Record

From Jul 1861 to Mar 1889, Patton missed 321 of 947 roll call votes, which is 33.9%. This is worse than the median of 32.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1889. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1861 Jul-Aug	51	29	56.9%	88^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	74	10	13.5%	22^nd
1862 Mar-May	113	32	28.3%	44^th
1862 Jun-Jul	121	55	45.5%	56^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	269	105	39.0%	67^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	38	9	23.7%	47^th
1888 Mar-May	105	22	21.0%	26^th
1888 Jun-Aug	47	27	57.4%	65^th
1888 Sep-Oct	16	9	56.3%	40^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	113	23	20.4%	21^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