Joseph Lawrence, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 21st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1841-1843	Representative	Pennsylvania's 21^st District
1827-1829	Representative	Pennsylvania's 15^th District
1825-1827	Representative	Pennsylvania's 15^th District

Voting Record

From Jan 1826 to Apr 1842, Lawrence missed 148 of 814 roll call votes, which is 18.2%. This is better than the median of 25.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Apr 1842. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1826 Jan-May	57	3	5.3%	8^th
1827 Jan-Mar	53	2	3.8%	8^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	158	8	5.1%	22^nd
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	73	20	27.4%	44^th
1841 May-Sep	254	23	9.1%	19^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	202	75	37.1%	80^th
1842 Apr-Jul	17	17	100.0%	98^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