William English, former Representative from Indiana's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1859-1861	Representative	Indiana's 2^nd District
1857-1859	Representative	Indiana's 2^nd District
1855-1857	Representative	Indiana's 2^nd District
1853-1855	Representative	Indiana's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1853 to Mar 1861, English missed 759 of 2,300 roll call votes, which is 33.0%. This is worse than the median of 23.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 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	113	14	12.4%	21^st
1854 Apr-Jul	305	95	31.1%	67^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	2	6.1%	19^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	48	31.0%	82^nd
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	173	16	9.2%	40^th
1856 Apr-Jul	198	81	40.9%	72^nd
1856 Aug-Aug	71	33	46.5%	83^rd
1856 Aug-Aug	44	44	100.0%	94^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	231	102	44.2%	85^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	14	13.6%	45^th
1858 Mar-May	179	35	19.6%	57^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	31	45.6%	78^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	194	43	22.2%	62^nd
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	30	43.5%	93^rd
1860 Mar-May	126	91	72.2%	97^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	30	30.9%	48^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	50	35.5%	71^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