John Patton, former Representative from Virginia's 13th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1837-1839	Representative	Virginia's 13^th District
1835-1837	Representative	Virginia's 13^th District
1833-1835	Representative	Virginia's 13^th District
1831-1833	Representative	Virginia's 11^th District
1829-1831	Representative	Virginia's 11^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1830 to Apr 1838, Patton missed 378 of 1,462 roll call votes, which is 25.9%. This is worse than the median of 23.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Apr 1838. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	88	12	13.6%	57^th
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	53	6	11.3%	62^nd
1832 Mar-May	98	31	31.6%	83^rd
1832 Jun-Jul	168	60	35.7%	92^nd
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	143	21	14.7%	40^th
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	35	6	17.1%	79^th
1834 Mar-May	91	33	36.3%	78^th
1834 Jun-Jun	94	16	17.0%	50^th
Dec 1834-Mar 1835	105	19	18.1%	67^th
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	17	29.8%	86^th
1836 Mar-May	150	48	32.0%	70^th
1836 Jun-Jul	116	20	17.2%	37^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	48	35.3%	76^th
1837 Sep-Oct	54	14	25.9%	86^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	18	34.6%	79^th
1838 Mar-May	22	9	40.9%	76^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