Samuel Beardsley, former Representative from New York's 20th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1843-1845	Representative	New York's 20^th District
1835-1837	Representative	New York's 17^th District
1833-1835	Representative	New York's 17^th District
1831-1833	Representative	New York's 14^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1831 to Feb 1845, Beardsley missed 212 of 1,022 roll call votes, which is 20.7%. This is better than the median of 23.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1845. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	53	4	7.5%	36^th
1832 Mar-May	98	22	22.4%	43^rd
1832 Jun-Jul	168	37	22.0%	71^st
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	143	24	16.8%	21^st
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	35	4	11.4%	37^th
1834 Mar-May	91	4	4.4%	11^th
1834 Jun-Jun	94	10	10.6%	16^th
Dec 1834-Mar 1835	105	55	52.4%	88^th
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	24	42.1%	92^nd
1836 Mar-May	42	7	16.7%	25^th
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	132	18	13.6%	39^th
1844 Mar-May	3	3	100.0%	97^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	1	0	0.0%	0^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