Powhatan Ellis, former Senator from Mississippi

Dates	Title	Representing
1827-1833	Senator	Mississippi
1825-1827	Senator	Mississippi

Voting Record

From Dec 1825 to Jul 1832, Ellis missed 159 of 817 roll call votes, which is 19.5%. This is worse than the median of 12.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 1832. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1825-May 1826	26	2	7.7%	29^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	173	13	7.5%	35^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	62	61	98.4%	96^th
Dec 1829-May 1830	178	15	8.4%	50^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	82	21	25.6%	82^nd
1829 Mar-Mar	16	16	100.0%	93^rd
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	11	3	27.3%	81^st
1832 Mar-May	81	16	19.8%	67^th
1832 Jun-Jul	188	12	6.4%	38^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