John Taliaferro, former Representative from Virginia's 10th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1839-1843	Representative	Virginia's 10^th District
1837-1839	Representative	Virginia's 10^th District
1835-1837	Representative	Virginia's 10^th District
1829-1831	Representative	Virginia's 13^th District
1827-1829	Representative	Virginia's 13^th District
1825-1827	Representative	Virginia's 13^th District
1823-1825	Representative	Virginia's 13^th District
1811-1813	Representative	Virginia's 8^th District
1801-1803	Representative	Virginia's 19^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1801 to Mar 1843, Taliaferro missed 548 of 3,757 roll call votes, which is 14.6%. This is better 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
Dec 1801-May 1802	94	24	25.5%	0^th
Dec 1802-Mar 1803	48	9	18.8%	0^th
Nov 1811-Feb 1812	70	34	48.6%	60^th
1812 Mar-Jun	126	33	26.2%	60^th
1812 Jul-Jul	14	1	7.1%	0^th
Nov 1812-Mar 1813	90	12	13.3%	40^th
Dec 1823-May 1824	61	3	4.9%	18^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	14	3	21.4%	45^th
1826 Jan-May	57	2	3.5%	0^th
1827 Jan-Mar	53	2	3.8%	8^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	158	25	15.8%	44^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	73	15	20.5%	22^nd
Dec 1829-May 1830	183	28	15.3%	55^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	88	27	30.7%	85^th
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1836 Mar-May	150	11	7.3%	7^th
1836 Jun-Jul	116	14	12.1%	17^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	18	13.2%	18^th
1837 Sep-Oct	54	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	3	5.8%	18^th
1838 Mar-May	120	11	9.2%	17^th
1838 Jun-Jul	100	15	15.0%	37^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	142	11	7.7%	10^th
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	163	18	11.0%	37^th
1840 Mar-May	250	65	26.0%	30^th
1840 Jun-Jul	207	40	19.3%	25^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	12	9.8%	7^th
1841 May-Sep	251	33	13.1%	33^rd
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	203	10	4.9%	7^th
1842 Apr-Jul	216	18	8.3%	8^th
1842 Aug-Aug	116	23	19.8%	40^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	28	16.3%	31^st

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