Robert Van Horn, former Representative from Missouri's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1897	Representative	Missouri's 5^th District
1881-1883	Representative	Missouri's 8^th District
1865-1871	Representative	Missouri's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1865 to Mar 1897, Van Horn missed 835 of 2,441 roll call votes, which is 34.2%. This is better than the median of 36.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1897. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	103	56	54.4%	80^th
1866 Mar-May	142	65	45.8%	75^th
1866 Jun-Jul	142	32	22.5%	50^th
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	224	140	62.5%	75^th
1867 Mar-Mar	61	3	4.9%	0^th
1867 Jul-Jul	35	3	8.6%	0^th
1867 Nov-Nov	5	1	20.0%	33^rd
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	139	35	25.2%	67^th
1868 Mar-May	125	37	29.6%	33^rd
1868 Jun-Jul	147	80	54.4%	67^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	1	100.0%	0^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	197	66	33.5%	67^th
1869 Mar-Apr	79	25	31.6%	67^th
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	71	18	25.4%	67^th
1870 Mar-May	150	93	62.0%	83^rd
1870 Jun-Jul	169	41	24.3%	50^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	158	34	21.5%	33^rd
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	75	24	32.0%	68^th
1882 Apr-Jul	166	27	16.3%	12^th
1882 Aug-Aug	7	6	85.7%	71^st
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	100	16	16.0%	23^rd
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1896 Mar-May	54	10	18.5%	13^th
1896 Jun-Jun	28	1	3.6%	3^rd
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	21	33.9%	39^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