Thaddeus Stevens, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 9th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1865-1869	Representative	Pennsylvania's 9^th District
1863-1865	Representative	Pennsylvania's 9^th District
1861-1863	Representative	Pennsylvania's 9^th District
1859-1861	Representative	Pennsylvania's 9^th District
1851-1853	Representative	Pennsylvania's 8^th District
1849-1851	Representative	Pennsylvania's 8^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1849 to Feb 1869, Stevens missed 1,190 of 3,809 roll call votes, which is 31.2%. This is worse than the median of 26.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1869. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	17	15.7%	20^th
1850 Mar-May	68	39	57.4%	80^th
1850 Jun-Aug	146	42	28.8%	40^th
1850 Sep-Sep	117	11	9.4%	0^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	64	48.1%	80^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	95	61	64.2%	80^th
1852 Apr-Jul	178	111	62.4%	80^th
1852 Aug-Aug	63	16	25.4%	20^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	80	70.2%	80^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	22	31.9%	87^th
1860 Mar-May	126	74	58.7%	96^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	35	36.1%	70^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	40	28.4%	78^th
1861 Jul-Aug	51	5	9.8%	38^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	74	10	13.5%	34^th
1862 Mar-May	113	35	31.0%	66^th
1862 Jun-Jul	122	22	18.0%	61^st
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	269	46	17.1%	39^th
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	130	11	8.5%	26^th
1864 Mar-May	170	22	12.9%	25^th
1864 Jun-Jul	129	41	31.8%	70^th
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	171	23	13.5%	37^th
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	103	6	5.8%	20^th
1866 Mar-May	142	10	7.0%	5^th
1866 Jun-Jul	139	27	19.4%	46^th
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	224	69	30.8%	75^th
1867 Mar-Mar	60	15	25.0%	66^th
1867 Jul-Jul	35	10	28.6%	63^rd
1867 Nov-Nov	5	3	60.0%	85^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	140	81	57.9%	95^th
1868 Mar-May	125	69	55.2%	85^th
1868 Jun-Jul	150	72	48.0%	75^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	1	100.0%	45^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	1	0	0.0%	0^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