Josiah Hicks, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 20th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1899	Representative	Pennsylvania's 20^th District
1893-1895	Representative	Pennsylvania's 20^th District

Voting Record

From Aug 1893 to Mar 1899, Hicks missed 419 of 708 roll call votes, which is 59.2%. 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
1893 Aug-Nov	65	46	70.8%	90^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	111	83.5%	87^th
1894 Apr-Jul	101	72	71.3%	82^nd
1894 Aug-Aug	20	10	50.0%	69^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	15	31.3%	75^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	18	9	50.0%	94^th
1896 Mar-May	54	28	51.9%	76^th
1896 Jun-Jun	28	17	60.7%	77^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	33	53.2%	78^th
1897 Mar-Jul	37	21	56.8%	80^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	26	8	30.8%	58^th
1898 Mar-May	53	30	56.6%	92^nd
1898 Jun-Jul	26	9	34.6%	46^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	10	27.0%	36^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo