Schuyler Colfax, former Vice President

Dates	Title	Representing
1869-1873	Vice President
1865-1869	Representative	Indiana's 9^th District
1863-1865	Representative	Indiana's 9^th District
1861-1863	Representative	Indiana's 9^th District
1859-1861	Representative	Indiana's 9^th District
1857-1859	Representative	Indiana's 9^th District
1855-1857	Representative	Indiana's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1855 to Mar 1869, Colfax missed 130 of 2,368 roll call votes, which is 5.5%. This is better than the median of 26.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1869. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	174	1	0.6%	9^th
1856 Apr-Jul	200	18	9.0%	0^th
1856 Aug-Aug	73	1	1.4%	0^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	1	2.3%	9^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	231	12	5.2%	27^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	98	5	5.1%	20^th
1858 Mar-May	178	9	5.1%	7^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	3	4.4%	14^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	6	3.1%	7^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	2	2.9%	22^nd
1860 Mar-May	126	4	3.2%	4^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	4	4.1%	4^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	3	2.1%	4^th
1861 Jul-Aug	50	3	6.0%	19^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	74	7	9.5%	21^st
1862 Mar-May	113	4	3.5%	3^rd
1862 Jun-Jul	121	2	1.7%	0^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	269	17	6.3%	4^th
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	5	3	60.0%	97^th
1864 Mar-May	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1864 Jun-Jul	2	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1866 Mar-May	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1866 Jun-Jul	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1867 Mar-Mar	2	1	50.0%	85^th
1868 Jun-Jul	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	25	24	96.0%	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