Oliver Smith, former Senator from Indiana

Dates	Title	Representing
1837-1843	Senator	Indiana
1827-1829	Representative	Indiana's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Sep 1837 to Mar 1843, Smith missed 64 of 1,543 roll call votes, which is 4.1%. This is better than the median of 18.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1843. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1837 Sep-Oct	36	1	2.8%	30^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	63	2	3.2%	7^th
1838 Mar-May	91	7	7.7%	18^th
1838 Jun-Jul	78	11	14.1%	25^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	134	8	6.0%	11^th
1840 Jan-Feb	36	3	8.3%	30^th
1840 Mar-May	79	7	8.9%	15^th
1840 Jun-Jul	140	11	7.9%	12^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	71	7	9.9%	26^th
1841 Jun-Sep	317	5	1.6%	2^nd
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	44	0	0.0%	0^th
1842 Apr-Jul	194	0	0.0%	0^th
1842 Aug-Aug	127	1	0.8%	0^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	127	1	0.8%	0^th
1841 Mar-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^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