Robert Schenck, former Representative from Ohio's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1865-1871	Representative	Ohio's 3^rd District
1863-1865	Representative	Ohio's 3^rd District
1849-1851	Representative	Ohio's 3^rd District
1847-1849	Representative	Ohio's 3^rd District
1845-1847	Representative	Ohio's 3^rd District
1843-1845	Representative	Ohio's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1843 to Dec 1870, Schenck missed 1,340 of 4,678 roll call votes, which is 28.6%. This is worse than the median of 24.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1870. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	129	29	22.5%	50^th
1844 Mar-May	207	50	24.2%	25^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	29	38.2%	75^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	170	56	32.9%	75^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	146	45	30.8%	80^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	100	38.0%	40^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	15	29.4%	80^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	175	67	38.3%	60^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	100	41	41.0%	0^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	69	45.7%	0^th
1848 Aug-Aug	70	25	35.7%	0^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	51	32.9%	0^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	11	10.2%	0^th
1850 Mar-May	68	35	51.5%	80^th
1850 Jun-Aug	146	50	34.2%	60^th
1850 Sep-Sep	117	48	41.0%	80^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	41	30.8%	40^th
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	130	19	14.6%	50^th
1864 Mar-May	169	43	25.4%	51^st
1864 Jun-Jul	129	40	31.0%	68^th
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	171	29	17.0%	44^th
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	103	18	17.5%	67^th
1866 Mar-May	142	34	23.9%	46^th
1866 Jun-Jul	141	28	19.9%	53^rd
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	224	36	16.1%	38^th
1867 Mar-Mar	61	7	11.5%	38^th
1867 Jul-Jul	35	4	11.4%	37^th
1867 Nov-Nov	5	1	20.0%	54^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	140	22	15.7%	32^nd
1868 Mar-May	125	45	36.0%	55^th
1868 Jun-Jul	150	31	20.7%	31^st
1868 Sep-Sep	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	197	55	27.9%	61^st
1869 Mar-Apr	81	31	38.3%	78^th
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	71	24	33.8%	81^st
1870 Mar-May	150	27	18.0%	30^th
1870 Jun-Jul	168	73	43.5%	84^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	20	11	55.0%	94^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo