William Ashe, former Representative from North Carolina's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1853-1855	Representative	North Carolina's 3^rd District
1851-1853	Representative	North Carolina's 7^th District
1849-1851	Representative	North Carolina's 7^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1849 to Mar 1855, Ashe missed 584 of 1,628 roll call votes, which is 35.9%. This is worse than the median of 30.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1855. 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	20	18.5%	58^th
1850 Mar-May	68	11	16.2%	33^rd
1850 Jun-Aug	146	26	17.8%	50^th
1850 Sep-Sep	117	19	16.2%	56^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	53	39.8%	86^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	96	31	32.3%	72^nd
1852 Apr-Jul	178	76	42.7%	82^nd
1852 Aug-Aug	64	27	42.2%	68^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	51	44.7%	80^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	111	50	45.0%	85^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	127	41.6%	67^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	16	48.5%	80^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	77	49.7%	91^st

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