Thomas Updegraff, former Representative from Iowa's 4th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1899	Representative	Iowa's 4^th District
1893-1895	Representative	Iowa's 4^th District
1881-1883	Representative	Iowa's 3^rd District
1879-1881	Representative	Iowa's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Mar 1879 to Mar 1899, Updegraff missed 408 of 1,494 roll call votes, which is 27.3%. This is better than the median of 33.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1899. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1879 Mar-Jul	135	9	6.7%	7^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	34	3	8.8%	7^th
1880 Mar-May	115	35	30.4%	53^rd
1880 Jun-Jun	32	6	18.8%	20^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	119	31	26.1%	40^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	75	16	21.3%	45^th
1882 Apr-Jul	166	27	16.3%	14^th
1882 Aug-Aug	7	1	14.3%	33^rd
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	99	19	19.2%	48^th
1893 Aug-Nov	66	29	43.9%	42^nd
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	100	75.2%	64^th
1894 Apr-Jul	101	60	59.4%	59^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	7	35.0%	29^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	9	18.8%	40^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1896 Mar-May	54	6	11.1%	5^th
1896 Jun-Jun	28	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	16	25.8%	26^th
1897 Mar-Jul	37	7	18.9%	22^nd
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	29	4	13.8%	21^st
1898 Mar-May	53	13	24.5%	42^nd
1898 Jun-Jul	26	2	7.7%	7^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	8	21.6%	26^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