John Van Alen, former Representative from New York's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1795-1799	Representative	New York's 7^th District
1793-1795	Representative	New York's 7^th District

Voting Record

From Jan 1794 to Mar 1799, Van Alen missed 12 of 307 roll call votes, which is 3.9%. This is better than the median of 14.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1799. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1794 Jan-Feb	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1794 Mar-May	41	2	4.9%	32^nd
1794 Jun-Jun	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Nov 1794-Mar 1795	15	2	13.3%	39^th
1796 Jan-Jan	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1796 Mar-May	40	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1796-Mar 1797	40	4	10.0%	43^rd
1797 Jun-Jul	34	0	0.0%	0^th
Nov 1797-Feb 1798	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1798 Mar-Jun	42	0	0.0%	0^th
1798 Jul-Jul	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1798-Mar 1799	44	4	9.1%	55^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