John Potter, former Representative from Wisconsin's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1861-1863	Representative	Wisconsin's 1^st District
1859-1861	Representative	Wisconsin's 1^st District
1857-1859	Representative	Wisconsin's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1857 to Mar 1863, Potter missed 345 of 1,596 roll call votes, which is 21.6%. This is better than the median of 27.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1863. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	98	1	1.0%	7^th
1858 Mar-May	178	14	7.9%	27^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	12	17.6%	62^nd
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	193	24	12.4%	38^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	12	17.4%	70^th
1860 Mar-May	126	22	17.5%	34^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	12	12.4%	10^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	38	27.0%	69^th
1861 Jul-Aug	51	11	21.6%	54^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	74	27	36.5%	75^th
1862 Mar-May	113	34	30.1%	51^st
1862 Jun-Jul	122	14	11.5%	12^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	266	124	46.6%	74^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