Samuel Randall, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1889-1891	Representative	Pennsylvania's 3^rd District
1887-1889	Representative	Pennsylvania's 3^rd District
1885-1887	Representative	Pennsylvania's 3^rd District
1883-1885	Representative	Pennsylvania's 3^rd District
1881-1883	Representative	Pennsylvania's 3^rd District
1877-1881	Representative	Pennsylvania's 3^rd District
1875-1877	Representative	Pennsylvania's 3^rd District
1873-1875	Representative	Pennsylvania's 1^st District
1865-1873	Representative	Pennsylvania's 1^st District
1863-1865	Representative	Pennsylvania's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1863 to Apr 1890, Randall missed 1,505 of 5,135 roll call votes, which is 29.3%. This is better than the median of 33.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Apr 1890. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	124	39	31.5%	78^th
1864 Mar-May	169	45	26.6%	67^th
1864 Jun-Jul	129	41	31.8%	78^th
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	171	80	46.8%	78^th
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	102	20	19.6%	69^th
1866 Mar-May	142	42	29.6%	58^th
1866 Jun-Jul	141	27	19.1%	67^th
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	224	58	25.9%	67^th
1867 Mar-Mar	59	18	30.5%	73^rd
1867 Jul-Jul	35	15	42.9%	91^st
1867 Nov-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	138	22	15.9%	25^th
1868 Mar-May	123	62	50.4%	83^rd
1868 Jun-Jul	150	49	32.7%	67^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	1	100.0%	50^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	197	66	33.5%	83^rd
1869 Mar-Apr	82	36	43.9%	86^th
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	71	5	7.0%	7^th
1870 Mar-May	148	33	22.3%	50^th
1870 Jun-Jul	166	37	22.3%	64^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	156	41	26.3%	71^st
1871 Mar-Apr	86	11	12.8%	38^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	89	40	44.9%	94^th
1872 Mar-May	156	21	13.5%	19^th
1872 Jun-Jun	35	2	5.7%	6^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	150	31	20.7%	41^st
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	77	19	24.7%	73^rd
1874 Mar-May	100	14	14.0%	50^th
1874 Jun-Jun	58	13	22.4%	45^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	231	35	15.2%	32^nd
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	59	7	11.9%	37^th
1876 Apr-Jul	106	15	14.2%	13^th
1876 Aug-Aug	37	4	10.8%	14^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1878 Mar-May	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1878 Jun-Jun	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1879 Mar-Jul	2	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	73	27	37.0%	76^th
1882 Apr-Jul	164	99	60.4%	81^st
1882 Aug-Aug	7	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	100	25	25.0%	47^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	33	9	27.3%	67^th
1884 Mar-May	69	21	30.4%	62^nd
1884 Jun-Jul	82	28	34.1%	53^rd
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	145	25	17.2%	33^rd
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	36	13	36.1%	78^th
1886 Apr-Jul	153	26	17.0%	31^st
1886 Aug-Aug	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	100	21	21.0%	50^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	38	18	47.4%	92^nd
1888 Mar-May	105	30	28.6%	39^th
1888 Jun-Aug	44	38	86.4%	97^th
1888 Sep-Oct	16	16	100.0%	87^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	113	38	33.6%	64^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	78	78	100.0%	99^th
1890 Mar-May	44	44	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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo