Richard Guenther, former Representative from Wisconsin's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1887-1889	Representative	Wisconsin's 2^nd District
1885-1887	Representative	Wisconsin's 6^th District
1883-1885	Representative	Wisconsin's 6^th District
1881-1883	Representative	Wisconsin's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1881 to Mar 1889, Guenther missed 397 of 1,299 roll call votes, which is 30.6%. This is better than the median of 32.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1889. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	75	18	24.0%	41^st
1882 Apr-Jul	166	27	16.3%	14^th
1882 Aug-Aug	7	1	14.3%	27^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	100	15	15.0%	19^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	33	10	30.3%	71^st
1884 Mar-May	69	16	23.2%	42^nd
1884 Jun-Jul	83	45	54.2%	72^nd
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	146	36	24.7%	42^nd
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	37	10	27.0%	60^th
1886 Apr-Jul	155	54	34.8%	67^th
1886 Aug-Aug	6	1	16.7%	28^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	103	25	24.3%	55^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	38	8	21.1%	42^nd
1888 Mar-May	105	24	22.9%	30^th
1888 Jun-Aug	47	34	72.3%	87^th
1888 Sep-Oct	16	15	93.8%	78^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	113	58	51.3%	80^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