Joseph Walker, former Representative from Massachusetts's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1899	Representative	Massachusetts's 3^rd District
1893-1895	Representative	Massachusetts's 3^rd District
1891-1893	Representative	Massachusetts's 10^th District
1889-1891	Representative	Massachusetts's 10^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1889 to Mar 1899, Walker missed 683 of 1,582 roll call votes, which is 43.2%. This is worse than the median of 33.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1899. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	70	0	0.0%	0^th
1890 Mar-May	109	30	27.5%	56^th
1890 Jun-Aug	169	48	28.4%	32^nd
1890 Sep-Sep	53	2	3.8%	8^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	38	22.0%	37^th
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	57	20	35.1%	56^th
1892 Apr-Jul	159	97	61.0%	81^st
1892 Aug-Aug	4	4	100.0%	75^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	78	21	26.9%	38^th
1893 Aug-Nov	66	55	83.3%	96^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	104	78.2%	69^th
1894 Apr-Jul	101	74	73.3%	83^rd
1894 Aug-Aug	20	20	100.0%	96^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	17	35.4%	81^st
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	18	5	27.8%	71^st
1896 Mar-May	54	35	64.8%	90^th
1896 Jun-Jun	28	4	14.3%	19^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	30	48.4%	71^st
1897 Mar-Jul	37	23	62.2%	88^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	29	9	31.0%	58^th
1898 Mar-May	52	19	36.5%	65^th
1898 Jun-Jul	25	13	52.0%	70^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	15	40.5%	61^st

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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo