Richard Thompson, former Representative from Indiana's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1847-1849	Representative	Indiana's 7^th District
1841-1843	Representative	Indiana's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From May 1841 to Mar 1849, Thompson missed 276 of 1,441 roll call votes, which is 19.2%. This is better than the median of 23.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1849. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1841 May-Sep	258	27	10.5%	21^st
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	203	29	14.3%	27^th
1842 Apr-Jul	216	22	10.2%	17^th
1842 Aug-Aug	116	13	11.2%	28^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	57	33.1%	50^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	100	17	17.0%	45^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	59	39.1%	78^th
1848 Aug-Aug	70	19	27.1%	61^st
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	33	21.3%	51^st

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