Matthew Lyon, former Representative from Kentucky's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1807-1811	Representative	Kentucky's 1^st District
1805-1807	Representative	Kentucky's 1^st District
1803-1805	Representative	Kentucky's 1^st District
1799-1801	Representative	Vermont's 1^st District
1797-1799	Representative	Vermont's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Jun 1797 to Mar 1811, Lyon missed 386 of 1,063 roll call votes, which is 36.3%. This is worse than the median of 19.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1811. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1797 Jun-Jul	34	0	0.0%	0^th
Nov 1797-Feb 1798	19	9	47.4%	90^th
1798 Mar-Jun	42	2	4.8%	25^th
1798 Jul-Jul	16	1	6.3%	45^th
Dec 1798-Mar 1799	44	33	75.0%	90^th
Dec 1799-May 1800	54	8	14.8%	74^th
Nov 1800-Mar 1801	42	14	33.3%	91^st
Oct 1803-Mar 1804	96	18	18.8%	60^th
Nov 1804-Mar 1805	35	14	40.0%	90^th
Dec 1805-Apr 1806	103	26	25.2%	59^th
Dec 1806-Mar 1807	55	28	50.9%	89^th
1807 Oct-Dec	35	11	31.4%	90^th
1808 Jan-Mar	49	16	32.7%	81^st
1808 Apr-Apr	35	10	28.6%	61^st
Nov 1808-Mar 1809	111	35	31.5%	76^th
1809 May-Jun	36	10	27.8%	70^th
Dec 1809-Jan 1810	29	20	69.0%	96^th
1810 Feb-Apr	121	54	44.6%	85^th
1810 May-May	3	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1810-Mar 1811	104	77	74.0%	93^rd

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