Samuel Robertson, former Representative from Louisiana's 6th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1905-1907	Representative	Louisiana's 6^th District
1903-1905	Representative	Louisiana's 6^th District
1901-1903	Representative	Louisiana's 6^th District
1899-1901	Representative	Louisiana's 6^th District
1895-1899	Representative	Louisiana's 6^th District
1893-1895	Representative	Louisiana's 6^th District
1891-1893	Representative	Louisiana's 6^th District
1889-1891	Representative	Louisiana's 6^th District
1887-1889	Representative	Louisiana's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1887 to Mar 1907, Robertson missed 1,250 of 2,460 roll call votes, which is 50.8%. This is worse than the median of 29.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1907. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	39	3	7.7%	4^th
1888 Mar-May	105	60	57.1%	83^rd
1888 Jun-Aug	47	28	59.6%	54^th
1888 Sep-Oct	16	4	25.0%	0^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	112	40	35.7%	58^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	76	35	46.1%	88^th
1890 Mar-May	109	37	33.9%	70^th
1890 Jun-Aug	169	108	63.9%	93^rd
1890 Sep-Sep	53	53	100.0%	89^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	85	49.1%	89^th
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	58	19	32.8%	36^th
1892 Apr-Jul	159	75	47.2%	54^th
1892 Aug-Aug	4	4	100.0%	68^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	79	42	53.2%	75^th
1893 Aug-Nov	67	16	23.9%	20^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	46	34.6%	28^th
1894 Apr-Jul	101	30	29.7%	23^rd
1894 Aug-Aug	20	8	40.0%	42^nd
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	22	45.8%	85^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	17	6	35.3%	88^th
1896 Mar-May	54	51	94.4%	99^th
1896 Jun-Jun	28	17	60.7%	73^rd
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	35	56.5%	81^st
1897 Mar-Jul	38	22	57.9%	85^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	29	12	41.4%	78^th
1898 Mar-May	52	19	36.5%	71^st
1898 Jun-Jul	26	12	46.2%	70^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	14	37.8%	62^nd
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	9	45.0%	88^th
1900 Mar-May	49	43	87.8%	99^th
1900 Jun-Jun	16	16	100.0%	96^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	48	77.4%	99^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	18	3	16.7%	38^th
1902 Mar-May	21	11	52.4%	84^th
1902 Jun-Jul	28	28	100.0%	98^th
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	113	65	57.5%	94^th
1903 Nov-Nov	6	1	16.7%	53^rd
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	26	53.1%	83^rd
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	27	84.4%	99^th
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	24	14	58.3%	92^nd
1906 Mar-May	57	18	31.6%	43^rd
1906 Jun-Jun	20	13	65.0%	83^rd
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	34	25	73.5%	90^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