Reuben Chapman, former Representative from Alabama's 6th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1845-1847	Representative	Alabama's 6^th District
1843-1845	Representative	Alabama's 6^th District
1841-1843	Representative	Alabama
1839-1841	Representative	Alabama's 1^st District
1837-1839	Representative	Alabama's 1^st District
1835-1837	Representative	Alabama's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1835 to Mar 1847, Chapman missed 881 of 3,858 roll call votes, which is 22.8%. This is better than the median of 24.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1847. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	3	5.3%	10^th
1836 Mar-May	150	64	42.7%	70^th
1836 Jun-Jul	116	24	20.7%	35^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	32	23.5%	48^th
1837 Sep-Oct	54	1	1.9%	9^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	9	17.3%	50^th
1838 Mar-May	120	20	16.7%	45^th
1838 Jun-Jul	100	33	33.0%	52^nd
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	143	35	24.5%	43^rd
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	154	23	14.9%	39^th
1840 Mar-May	250	59	23.6%	18^th
1840 Jun-Jul	207	48	23.2%	30^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	38	30.9%	48^th
1841 May-Sep	263	58	22.1%	60^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	202	43	21.3%	55^th
1842 Apr-Jul	216	58	26.9%	61^st
1842 Aug-Aug	116	58	50.0%	87^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	46	26.7%	55^th
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	137	35	25.5%	79^th
1844 Mar-May	207	35	16.9%	36^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	8	10.5%	13^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	167	41	24.6%	64^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	149	23	15.4%	31^st
1846 Apr-Jul	263	43	16.3%	22^nd
1846 Aug-Aug	51	8	15.7%	36^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	177	36	20.3%	34^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