Robert Van Valkenburgh, former Representative from New York's 27th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1863-1865	Representative	New York's 27^th District
1861-1863	Representative	New York's 28^th District

Voting Record

From Jul 1861 to Mar 1865, Van Valkenburgh missed 422 of 1,227 roll call votes, which is 34.4%. This is worse than the median of 28.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1865. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1861 Jul-Aug	51	17	33.3%	78^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	74	15	20.3%	50^th
1862 Mar-May	113	25	22.1%	46^th
1862 Jun-Jul	122	62	50.8%	85^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	268	158	59.0%	90^th
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	130	7	5.4%	10^th
1864 Mar-May	170	57	33.5%	53^rd
1864 Jun-Jul	129	38	29.5%	52^nd
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	170	43	25.3%	47^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