John Roane, former Representative from Virginia's 9th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1835-1837	Representative	Virginia's 9^th District
1829-1831	Representative	Virginia's 12^th District
1827-1829	Representative	Virginia's 12^th District
1813-1815	Representative	Virginia's 12^th District
1811-1813	Representative	Virginia's 11^th District
1809-1811	Representative	Virginia's 11^th District

Voting Record

From May 1809 to Mar 1837, Roane missed 355 of 1,918 roll call votes, which is 18.5%. This is better than the median of 21.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1837. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1809 May-Jun	36	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1809-Jan 1810	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1810 Feb-Apr	121	9	7.4%	0^th
1810 May-May	3	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1810-Mar 1811	104	11	10.6%	0^th
Nov 1811-Feb 1812	82	6	7.3%	50^th
1812 Mar-Jun	126	16	12.7%	25^th
1812 Jul-Jul	14	0	0.0%	0^th
Nov 1812-Mar 1813	90	16	17.8%	38^th
1813 May-Aug	72	2	2.8%	11^th
Dec 1813-Apr 1814	110	24	21.8%	40^th
1814 Sep-Nov	54	22	40.7%	88^th
Dec 1814-Feb 1815	106	35	33.0%	89^th
1815 Mar-Mar	10	1	10.0%	25^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	158	1	0.6%	0^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	73	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1829-May 1830	183	21	11.5%	57^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	88	5	5.7%	22^nd
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	2	3.5%	13^th
1836 Mar-May	150	22	14.7%	24^th
1836 Jun-Jul	116	26	22.4%	52^nd
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	136	100.0%	98^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