Joseph Edsall, former Representative from New Jersey's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1847-1849	Representative	New Jersey's 3^rd District
1845-1847	Representative	New Jersey's 4^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1845 to Mar 1849, Edsall missed 521 of 1,105 roll call votes, which is 47.1%. This is worse than the median of 23.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1849. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	149	76	51.0%	91^st
1846 Apr-Jul	263	106	40.3%	84^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	2	3.9%	3^rd
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	175	59	33.7%	69^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	91	52	57.1%	94^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	111	73.5%	97^th
1848 Aug-Aug	70	21	30.0%	65^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	94	60.6%	97^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