Robert Craig, former Representative from Virginia's 17th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1839-1841	Representative	Virginia's 17^th District
1837-1839	Representative	Virginia's 17^th District
1835-1837	Representative	Virginia's 17^th District
1831-1833	Representative	Virginia's 20^th District
1829-1831	Representative	Virginia's 20^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1829 to Mar 1841, Craig missed 549 of 2,395 roll call votes, which is 22.9%. This is better 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
Dec 1829-May 1830	183	19	10.4%	27^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	88	18	20.5%	77^th
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	53	8	15.1%	69^th
1832 Mar-May	98	14	14.3%	52^nd
1832 Jun-Jul	168	29	17.3%	58^th
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	143	27	18.9%	45^th
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	6	10.5%	55^th
1836 Mar-May	150	24	16.0%	32^nd
1836 Jun-Jul	116	25	21.6%	45^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	20	14.7%	28^th
1837 Sep-Oct	54	7	13.0%	61^st
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	6	11.5%	31^st
1838 Mar-May	120	31	25.8%	50^th
1838 Jun-Jul	100	38	38.0%	81^st
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	143	48	33.6%	70^th
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	156	33	21.2%	63^rd
1840 Mar-May	250	76	30.4%	35^th
1840 Jun-Jul	207	52	25.1%	34^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	121	68	56.2%	85^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