Joseph Buffington, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 24th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1845-1847	Representative	Pennsylvania's 24^th District
1843-1845	Representative	Pennsylvania's 24^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1843 to Mar 1847, Buffington missed 285 of 1,219 roll call votes, which is 23.4%. This is better than the median of 24.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1847. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	129	18	14.0%	45^th
1844 Mar-May	207	39	18.8%	45^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	22	28.9%	66^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	170	34	20.0%	49^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	146	22	15.1%	29^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	87	33.1%	67^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	17	33.3%	69^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	177	46	26.0%	50^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