John Thomson, former Senator from New Jersey

Dates	Title	Representing
1857-1863	Senator	New Jersey
1853-1857	Senator	New Jersey

Voting Record

From Mar 1853 to Jul 1862, Thomson missed 1,621 of 2,834 roll call votes, which is 57.2%. This is worse than the median of 20.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 1862. 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	31	62.0%	85^th
1854 Apr-Jul	229	124	54.1%	92^nd
1854 Aug-Aug	64	30	46.9%	85^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	178	64	36.0%	71^st
1853 Mar-Apr	22	12	54.5%	67^th
1856 Jan-Mar	32	13	40.6%	79^th
1856 Apr-Jul	131	111	84.7%	95^th
1856 Aug-Aug	124	36	29.0%	58^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	12	75.0%	74^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	61	42.4%	68^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	21	36.8%	83^rd
1858 Mar-May	216	55	25.5%	60^th
1858 Jun-Jun	116	44	37.9%	77^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	267	219	82.0%	93^rd
1857 Mar-Mar	29	2	6.9%	15^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	8	88.9%	57^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	32	74.4%	93^rd
1860 Mar-May	158	93	58.9%	88^th
1860 Jun-Jun	131	65	49.6%	90^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	229	130	56.8%	95^th
1859 Mar-Mar	32	30	93.8%	85^th
1860 Jun-Jun	5	1	20.0%	45^th
1861 Jul-Aug	78	54	69.2%	92^nd
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	73	36	49.3%	87^th
1862 Mar-May	146	109	74.7%	94^th
1862 Jun-Jul	213	205	96.2%	94^th
1861 Mar-Mar	42	23	54.8%	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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo