Samuel Oliver, former Representative from Iowa's 9th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1877-1879	Representative	Iowa's 9^th District
1875-1877	Representative	Iowa's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1875 to Mar 1879, Oliver missed 130 of 683 roll call votes, which is 19.0%. This is better than the median of 21.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1879. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	58	1	1.7%	13^th
1876 Apr-Jul	98	32	32.7%	53^rd
1876 Aug-Aug	37	37	100.0%	87^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	124	8	6.5%	13^th
1877 Oct-Dec	35	1	2.9%	22^nd
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	56	4	7.1%	18^th
1878 Mar-May	100	16	16.0%	39^th
1878 Jun-Jun	62	1	1.6%	8^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	113	30	26.5%	73^rd

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