Joseph Desha, former Representative from Kentucky's 4th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1817-1819	Representative	Kentucky's 4^th District
1815-1817	Representative	Kentucky's 4^th District
1813-1815	Representative	Kentucky's 4^th District
1811-1813	Representative	Kentucky's 6^th District
1807-1811	Representative	Kentucky's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Oct 1807 to Mar 1819, Desha missed 104 of 1,406 roll call votes, which is 7.4%. This is better than the median of 15.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1819. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1807 Oct-Dec	35	1	2.9%	15^th
1808 Jan-Mar	49	4	8.2%	30^th
1808 Apr-Apr	35	6	17.1%	55^th
Nov 1808-Mar 1809	111	9	8.1%	15^th
1809 May-Jun	36	5	13.9%	35^th
Dec 1809-Jan 1810	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1810 Feb-Apr	121	6	5.0%	0^th
1810 May-May	3	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1810-Mar 1811	104	10	9.6%	9^th
Nov 1811-Feb 1812	82	12	14.6%	57^th
1812 Mar-Jun	126	9	7.1%	31^st
1812 Jul-Jul	14	4	28.6%	68^th
Nov 1812-Mar 1813	90	9	10.0%	28^th
1813 May-Aug	72	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1813-Apr 1814	110	7	6.4%	0^th
1814 Sep-Nov	54	1	1.9%	6^th
Dec 1814-Feb 1815	106	6	5.7%	29^th
1815 Mar-Mar	10	2	20.0%	47^th
Dec 1815-Apr 1816	72	5	6.9%	10^th
1817 Jan-Mar	41	3	7.3%	31^st
Dec 1817-Apr 1818	64	4	6.3%	15^th
Nov 1818-Mar 1819	42	1	2.4%	5^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