Thomas Smith, former Representative from Indiana's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1845-1847	Representative	Indiana's 3^rd District
1843-1845	Representative	Indiana's 3^rd District
1839-1841	Representative	Indiana's 4^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1839 to Mar 1847, Smith missed 487 of 1,966 roll call votes, which is 24.8%. This is worse than the median of 24.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1847. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	159	18	11.3%	21^st
1840 Mar-May	250	117	46.8%	64^th
1840 Jun-Jul	207	52	25.1%	41^st
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	27	22.0%	19^th
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	136	22	16.2%	52^nd
1844 Mar-May	207	38	18.4%	42^nd
1844 Jun-Jun	76	25	32.9%	74^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	170	39	22.9%	59^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	146	22	15.1%	29^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	54	20.5%	37^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	29	56.9%	85^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	178	44	24.7%	47^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