Philemon Thomas, former Representative from Louisiana's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1833-1835	Representative	Louisiana's 2^nd District
1831-1833	Representative	Louisiana's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1831 to Mar 1835, Thomas missed 89 of 787 roll call votes, which is 11.3%. This is better than the median of 18.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1835. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	53	1	1.9%	13^th
1832 Mar-May	98	2	2.0%	7^th
1832 Jun-Jul	168	12	7.1%	13^th
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	143	20	14.0%	33^rd
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	35	4	11.4%	56^th
1834 Mar-May	91	18	19.8%	36^th
1834 Jun-Jun	94	10	10.6%	23^rd
Dec 1834-Mar 1835	105	22	21.0%	57^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