William Barksdale, former Representative from Mississippi's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1859-1861	Representative	Mississippi's 3^rd District
1857-1859	Representative	Mississippi's 3^rd District
1855-1857	Representative	Mississippi's 3^rd District
1853-1855	Representative	Mississippi

Voting Record

From Dec 1853 to Jan 1861, Barksdale missed 523 of 2,201 roll call votes, which is 23.8%. This is worse than the median of 23.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1861. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	112	21	18.8%	46^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	81	26.6%	56^th
1854 Aug-Aug	32	2	6.3%	26^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	33	21.3%	50^th
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	173	38	22.0%	69^th
1856 Apr-Jul	199	35	17.6%	28^th
1856 Aug-Aug	73	41	56.2%	92^nd
1856 Aug-Aug	44	3	6.8%	54^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	228	80	35.1%	83^rd
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	14	13.6%	45^th
1858 Mar-May	179	40	22.3%	64^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	13	19.1%	39^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	34	17.4%	53^rd
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	3	4.3%	22^nd
1860 Mar-May	126	48	38.1%	71^st
1860 Jun-Jun	96	29	30.2%	47^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	44	8	18.2%	38^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