Rufus Polk, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 17th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1901-1903	Representative	Pennsylvania's 17^th District
1899-1901	Representative	Pennsylvania's 17^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1899 to Mar 1902, Polk missed 90 of 168 roll call votes, which is 53.6%. This is worse than the median of 31.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1902. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	8	40.0%	78^th
1900 Mar-May	49	34	69.4%	96^th
1900 Jun-Jun	16	6	37.5%	74^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	28	45.2%	81^st
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	18	11	61.1%	96^th
1902 Mar-May	3	3	100.0%	99^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