Philip Van Cortlandt, former Representative from New York's 4th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1807-1809	Representative	New York's 4^th District
1805-1807	Representative	New York's 4^th District
1803-1805	Representative	New York's 4^th District
1801-1803	Representative	New York's 3^rd District
1799-1801	Representative	New York's 3^rd District
1795-1799	Representative	New York's 3^rd District
1793-1795	Representative	New York's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Jan 1794 to Mar 1809, Van Cortlandt missed 361 of 1,064 roll call votes, which is 33.9%. This is worse than the median of 19.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1809. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1794 Jan-Feb	7	1	14.3%	58^th
1794 Mar-May	41	6	14.6%	67^th
1794 Jun-Jun	6	2	33.3%	67^th
Nov 1794-Mar 1795	15	1	6.7%	23^rd
1796 Jan-Jan	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1796 Mar-May	40	5	12.5%	38^th
Dec 1796-Mar 1797	40	13	32.5%	70^th
1797 Jun-Jul	34	2	5.9%	50^th
Nov 1797-Feb 1798	19	8	42.1%	86^th
1798 Mar-Jun	42	8	19.0%	77^th
1798 Jul-Jul	16	1	6.3%	45^th
Dec 1798-Mar 1799	44	21	47.7%	82^nd
Dec 1799-May 1800	54	21	38.9%	96^th
Nov 1800-Mar 1801	42	9	21.4%	73^rd
Dec 1801-May 1802	94	20	21.3%	67^th
Dec 1802-Mar 1803	48	8	16.7%	61^st
Oct 1803-Mar 1804	96	49	51.0%	91^st
Nov 1804-Mar 1805	35	18	51.4%	91^st
Dec 1805-Apr 1806	103	41	39.8%	80^th
Dec 1806-Mar 1807	55	23	41.8%	84^th
1807 Oct-Dec	35	7	20.0%	77^th
1808 Jan-Mar	49	40	81.6%	94^th
1808 Apr-Apr	35	30	85.7%	88^th
Nov 1808-Mar 1809	111	27	24.3%	63^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