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

Dates	Title	Representing
1853-1855	Representative	Kentucky's 10^th District
1851-1853	Representative	Kentucky's 10^th District
1849-1851	Representative	Kentucky's 10^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1849 to Mar 1855, Stanton missed 334 of 1,627 roll call votes, which is 20.5%. This is better than the median of 30.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1855. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	7	6.5%	19^th
1850 Mar-May	68	0	0.0%	0^th
1850 Jun-Aug	146	16	11.0%	31^st
1850 Sep-Sep	117	4	3.4%	7^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	34	25.6%	65^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	94	9	9.6%	9^th
1852 Apr-Jul	178	54	30.3%	60^th
1852 Aug-Aug	64	17	26.6%	37^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	45	39.5%	70^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	112	25	22.3%	45^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	95	31.1%	44^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	5	15.2%	21^st
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	23	14.8%	22^nd

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