Luther Severance, former Representative from Maine's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1845-1847	Representative	Maine's 3^rd District
1843-1845	Representative	Maine's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1843 to Mar 1847, Severance missed 215 of 1,220 roll call votes, which is 17.6%. This is better than the median of 24.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1847. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	132	16	12.1%	35^th
1844 Mar-May	207	37	17.9%	40^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	13	17.1%	36^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	170	36	21.2%	53^rd
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	146	19	13.0%	25^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	58	22.1%	40^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	8	15.7%	36^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	175	28	16.0%	15^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