Joseph Root, former Representative from Ohio's 21st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1849-1851	Representative	Ohio's 21^st District
1847-1849	Representative	Ohio's 21^st District
1845-1847	Representative	Ohio's 21^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1845 to Mar 1851, Root missed 346 of 1,681 roll call votes, which is 20.6%. This is better than the median of 21.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1851. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	144	51	35.4%	69^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	66	25.1%	47^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	11	21.6%	42^nd
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	175	29	16.6%	16^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	100	15	15.0%	38^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	26	17.2%	30^th
1848 Aug-Aug	70	11	15.7%	37^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	23	14.8%	32^nd
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	6	5.6%	15^th
1850 Mar-May	68	20	29.4%	56^th
1850 Jun-Aug	146	14	9.6%	26^th
1850 Sep-Sep	117	22	18.8%	58^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	52	39.1%	85^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