Thomas Jett, former Representative from Illinois's 18th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1901-1903	Representative	Illinois's 18^th District
1899-1901	Representative	Illinois's 18^th District
1897-1899	Representative	Illinois's 18^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1897 to Mar 1903, Jett missed 241 of 502 roll call votes, which is 48.0%. This is worse than the median of 31.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1903. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1897 Mar-Jul	38	9	23.7%	35^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	26	10	38.5%	78^th
1898 Mar-May	52	23	44.2%	90^th
1898 Jun-Jul	26	24	92.3%	97^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	11	29.7%	53^rd
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	4	20.0%	31^st
1900 Mar-May	47	8	17.0%	31^st
1900 Jun-Jun	14	1	7.1%	34^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	21	33.9%	59^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	18	2	11.1%	27^th
1902 Mar-May	22	11	50.0%	75^th
1902 Jun-Jul	27	17	63.0%	80^th
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	113	100	88.5%	95^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