Thomas Harris, former Representative from Illinois's 6th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1857-1859	Representative	Illinois's 6^th District
1855-1857	Representative	Illinois's 6^th District
1849-1851	Representative	Illinois's 7^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1849 to Jun 1858, Harris missed 458 of 1,639 roll call votes, which is 27.9%. This is worse than the median of 22.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1858. 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	34	31.5%	90^th
1850 Mar-May	68	22	32.4%	79^th
1850 Jun-Aug	146	36	24.7%	62^nd
1850 Sep-Sep	117	32	27.4%	76^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	132	39	29.5%	76^th
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	173	10	5.8%	16^th
1856 Apr-Jul	200	105	52.5%	89^th
1856 Aug-Aug	72	10	13.9%	49^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	6	13.6%	71^st
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	230	77	33.5%	76^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	102	15	14.7%	46^th
1858 Mar-May	179	58	32.4%	75^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	14	20.6%	39^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