John Sergeant, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1839-1843	Representative	Pennsylvania's 2^nd District
1837-1839	Representative	Pennsylvania's 2^nd District
1827-1829	Representative	Pennsylvania's 2^nd District
1821-1823	Representative	Pennsylvania's 1^st District
1819-1821	Representative	Pennsylvania's 1^st District
1817-1819	Representative	Pennsylvania's 1^st District
1815-1817	Representative	Pennsylvania's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1815 to Sep 1841, Sergeant missed 722 of 2,161 roll call votes, which is 33.4%. This is worse than the median of 25.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Sep 1841. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1815-Apr 1816	72	21	29.2%	63^rd
1817 Jan-Mar	41	41	100.0%	83^rd
Dec 1817-Apr 1818	64	7	10.9%	50^th
Nov 1818-Mar 1819	42	11	26.2%	50^th
Dec 1819-May 1820	88	15	17.0%	60^th
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	59	6	10.2%	0^th
Dec 1821-May 1822	71	13	18.3%	78^th
1823 Jan-Mar	24	11	45.8%	78^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	158	52	32.9%	72^nd
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	73	5	6.8%	11^th
1837 Sep-Oct	54	6	11.1%	54^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	39	75.0%	98^th
1838 Mar-May	120	45	37.5%	77^th
1838 Jun-Jul	100	14	14.0%	26^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	142	65	45.8%	94^th
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	166	32	19.3%	62^nd
1840 Mar-May	250	167	66.8%	93^rd
1840 Jun-Jul	207	59	28.5%	39^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	53	43.1%	80^th
1841 May-Sep	255	60	23.5%	62^nd

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