John Weller, former Senator from California

Dates	Title	Representing
1852-1857	Senator	California
1843-1845	Representative	Ohio's 2^nd District
1839-1843	Representative	Ohio's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Jan 1852 to Mar 1857, Weller missed 179 of 1,294 roll call votes, which is 13.8%. This is better than the median of 27.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1857. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	9	7	77.8%	90^th
1852 Apr-Jul	80	20	25.0%	35^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	23	25.3%	45^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	124	11	8.9%	9^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	50	10	20.0%	29^th
1854 Apr-Jul	229	35	15.3%	15^th
1854 Aug-Aug	64	3	4.7%	0^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	178	16	9.0%	4^th
1853 Mar-Apr	22	3	13.6%	13^th
1856 Jan-Mar	32	2	6.3%	3^rd
1856 Apr-Jul	131	12	9.2%	7^th
1856 Aug-Aug	124	9	7.3%	8^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	28	19.4%	40^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