Richard Hawes, former Representative from Kentucky's 10th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1839-1841	Representative	Kentucky's 10^th District
1837-1839	Representative	Kentucky's 10^th District

Voting Record

From Sep 1837 to Mar 1841, Hawes missed 404 of 1,214 roll call votes, which is 33.3%. This is worse than the median of 29.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1841. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1837 Sep-Oct	54	8	14.8%	68^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	2	3.8%	6^th
1838 Mar-May	120	15	12.5%	22^nd
1838 Jun-Jul	100	18	18.0%	42^nd
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	140	40	28.6%	66^th
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	168	123	73.2%	95^th
1840 Mar-May	250	107	42.8%	60^th
1840 Jun-Jul	207	61	29.5%	42^nd
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	30	24.4%	36^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