Miles Taylor, former Representative from Louisiana's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1859-1861	Representative	Louisiana's 2^nd District
1857-1859	Representative	Louisiana's 2^nd District
1855-1857	Representative	Louisiana's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1855 to Feb 1861, Taylor missed 474 of 1,614 roll call votes, which is 29.4%. This is worse than the median of 23.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1861. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	174	58	33.3%	87^th
1856 Apr-Jul	200	53	26.5%	42^nd
1856 Aug-Aug	73	6	8.2%	37^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	3	6.8%	54^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	230	68	29.6%	75^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	35	34.0%	86^th
1858 Mar-May	175	45	25.7%	72^nd
1858 Jun-Jun	68	17	25.0%	50^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	51	26.2%	70^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	10	14.5%	53^rd
1860 Mar-May	125	42	33.6%	64^th
1860 Jun-Jun	96	46	47.9%	74^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	62	40	64.5%	94^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