Robert Roberts, former Representative from Mississippi's -1th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1845-1847	Representative	Mississippi
1843-1845	Representative	Mississippi

Voting Record

From Dec 1843 to Mar 1847, Roberts missed 448 of 1,228 roll call votes, which is 36.5%. This is worse than the median of 24.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1847. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	138	135	97.8%	99^th
1844 Mar-May	207	68	32.9%	82^nd
1844 Jun-Jun	76	27	35.5%	76^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	170	49	28.8%	79^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	148	46	31.1%	72^nd
1846 Apr-Jul	263	66	25.1%	52^nd
1846 Aug-Aug	51	16	31.4%	66^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	175	41	23.4%	40^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