Joseph Clay, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1807-1809	Representative	Pennsylvania's 1^st District
1805-1807	Representative	Pennsylvania's 1^st District
1803-1805	Representative	Pennsylvania's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Oct 1803 to Jan 1809, Clay missed 171 of 409 roll call votes, which is 41.8%. This is worse than the median of 19.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1809. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Oct 1803-Mar 1804	96	4	4.2%	11^th
Nov 1804-Mar 1805	35	9	25.7%	66^th
Dec 1805-Apr 1806	103	26	25.2%	62^nd
Dec 1806-Mar 1807	55	31	56.4%	91^st
1807 Oct-Dec	35	30	85.7%	96^th
1808 Jan-Mar	49	36	73.5%	94^th
1808 Apr-Apr	35	35	100.0%	94^th
Nov 1808-Mar 1809	1	0	0.0%	0^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