John Pope, former Representative from Kentucky's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1839-1843	Representative	Kentucky's 7^th District
1837-1839	Representative	Kentucky's 7^th District
1807-1813	Senator	Kentucky

Voting Record

From Sep 1837 to Mar 1843, Pope missed 556 of 2,168 roll call votes, which is 25.6%. This is worse than the median of 25.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1843. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1837 Sep-Oct	54	11	20.4%	76^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	16	30.8%	76^th
1838 Mar-May	120	19	15.8%	30^th
1838 Jun-Jul	100	23	23.0%	61^st
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	140	35	25.0%	55^th
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	162	22	13.6%	47^th
1840 Mar-May	250	93	37.2%	51^st
1840 Jun-Jul	206	61	29.6%	41^st
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	55	44.7%	81^st
1841 May-Sep	253	53	20.9%	55^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	204	35	17.2%	38^th
1842 Apr-Jul	216	56	25.9%	50^th
1842 Aug-Aug	116	30	25.9%	56^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	47	27.3%	55^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