Robert Smith, former Representative from Illinois's 8th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1857-1859	Representative	Illinois's 8^th District
1847-1849	Representative	Illinois's 1^st District
1845-1847	Representative	Illinois's 1^st District
1843-1845	Representative	Illinois's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1843 to Mar 1859, Smith missed 548 of 2,243 roll call votes, which is 24.4%. This is worse than the median of 22.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1859. 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	21	15.2%	45^th
1844 Mar-May	207	40	19.3%	60^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	7	9.2%	15^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	170	29	17.1%	35^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	149	25	16.8%	29^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	76	28.9%	57^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	51	100.0%	90^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	175	21	12.0%	19^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	93	17	18.3%	48^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	69	45.7%	91^st
1848 Aug-Aug	70	11	15.7%	33^rd
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	47	30.3%	77^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	16	15.5%	46^th
1858 Mar-May	179	47	26.3%	64^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	46	67.6%	92^nd
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	25	12.8%	26^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