Richard Johnson, former Vice President

Dates	Title	Representing
1837-1841	Vice President
1835-1837	Representative	Kentucky's 13^th District
1833-1835	Representative	Kentucky's 13^th District
1831-1833	Representative	Kentucky's 5^th District
1829-1831	Representative	Kentucky's 5^th District
1823-1829	Senator	Kentucky
1819-1823	Senator	Kentucky
1817-1819	Representative	Kentucky's 3^rd District
1815-1817	Representative	Kentucky's 3^rd District
1813-1815	Representative	Kentucky's 3^rd District
1811-1813	Representative	Kentucky's 4^th District
1807-1811	Representative	Kentucky's 4^th District

Voting Record

From Jan 1820 to Mar 1829, Johnson missed 144 of 843 roll call votes, which is 17.1%. This is worse than the median of 9.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1829. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1820 Jan-May	68	26	38.2%	67^th
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	52	5	9.6%	0^th
1822 Jan-May	61	10	16.4%	67^th
Dec 1822-Mar 1823	29	10	34.5%	83^rd
Dec 1823-May 1824	126	19	15.1%	67^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	48	4	8.3%	40^th
Dec 1825-May 1826	123	25	20.3%	75^th
Dec 1826-Mar 1827	101	24	23.8%	88^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	173	18	10.4%	44^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	62	3	4.8%	33^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo