Maecenas Benton, former Representative from Missouri's 15th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1903-1905	Representative	Missouri's 15^th District
1901-1903	Representative	Missouri's 15^th District
1899-1901	Representative	Missouri's 15^th District
1897-1899	Representative	Missouri's 15^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1897 to Mar 1905, Benton missed 212 of 593 roll call votes, which is 35.8%. This is worse than the median of 28.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1905. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1897 Mar-Jul	35	20	57.1%	86^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	29	6	20.7%	39^th
1898 Mar-May	52	14	26.9%	54^th
1898 Jun-Jul	26	21	80.8%	94^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	14	37.8%	67^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	6	30.0%	54^th
1900 Mar-May	48	11	22.9%	42^nd
1900 Jun-Jun	16	3	18.8%	50^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	12	19.4%	28^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	18	7	38.9%	85^th
1902 Mar-May	22	16	72.7%	96^th
1902 Jun-Jul	28	15	53.6%	77^th
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	113	38	33.6%	66^th
1903 Nov-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	20	40.8%	68^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	9	28.1%	55^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