Samuel Peyton, former Representative from Kentucky's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1859-1861	Representative	Kentucky's 2^nd District
1857-1859	Representative	Kentucky's 2^nd District
1847-1849	Representative	Kentucky's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1847 to Mar 1861, Peyton missed 275 of 1,445 roll call votes, which is 19.0%. This is better than the median of 23.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1861. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	91	6	6.6%	11^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	29	19.2%	30^th
1848 Aug-Aug	70	69	98.6%	95^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	20	12.9%	15^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	12	11.7%	40^th
1858 Mar-May	179	17	9.5%	23^rd
1858 Jun-Jun	68	7	10.3%	23^rd
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	21	10.8%	25^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	6	8.7%	36^th
1860 Mar-May	126	46	36.5%	68^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	16	16.5%	22^nd
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	26	18.4%	38^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