John Thompson, former Senator from Kentucky

Dates	Title	Representing
1853-1859	Senator	Kentucky
1849-1851	Representative	Kentucky's 5^th District
1847-1849	Representative	Kentucky's 5^th District
1839-1843	Representative	Kentucky's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1853 to Mar 1859, Thompson missed 944 of 1,682 roll call votes, which is 56.1%. This is worse than the median of 25.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1859. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	50	18	36.0%	65^th
1854 Apr-Jul	228	54	23.7%	40^th
1854 Aug-Aug	64	40	62.5%	88^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	177	47	26.6%	47^th
1853 Mar-Apr	22	4	18.2%	21^st
1856 Jan-Mar	32	26	81.3%	96^th
1856 Apr-Jul	131	81	61.8%	85^th
1856 Aug-Aug	124	72	58.1%	85^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	2	12.5%	26^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	66	45.8%	86^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	47	82.5%	96^th
1858 Mar-May	216	178	82.4%	91^st
1858 Jun-Jun	116	82	70.7%	92^nd
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	267	196	73.4%	94^th
1857 Mar-Mar	29	29	100.0%	94^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	2	22.2%	43^rd

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