Timothy Childs, former Representative from New York's 28th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1841-1843	Representative	New York's 28^th District
1837-1839	Representative	New York's 28^th District
1835-1837	Representative	New York's 28^th District
1829-1831	Representative	New York's 27^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1829 to Mar 1843, Childs missed 818 of 2,160 roll call votes, which is 37.9%. This is worse than the median of 25.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1843. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1829-May 1830	183	95	51.9%	95^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	88	47	53.4%	95^th
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	11	19.3%	71^st
1836 Mar-May	150	62	41.3%	81^st
1836 Jun-Jul	116	43	37.1%	85^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	45	33.1%	80^th
1837 Sep-Oct	54	12	22.2%	79^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	18	34.6%	82^nd
1838 Mar-May	120	27	22.5%	45^th
1838 Jun-Jul	100	30	30.0%	69^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	140	51	36.4%	82^nd
1841 May-Sep	256	115	44.9%	90^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	204	51	25.0%	58^th
1842 Apr-Jul	216	83	38.4%	75^th
1842 Aug-Aug	116	67	57.8%	88^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	61	35.5%	74^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