William Montgomery, former Representative from Pennsylvania's 20th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1859-1861	Representative	Pennsylvania's 20^th District
1857-1859	Representative	Pennsylvania's 20^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1857 to Mar 1861, Montgomery missed 402 of 977 roll call votes, which is 41.1%. 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 1857-Feb 1858	102	13	12.7%	42^nd
1858 Mar-May	179	119	66.5%	97^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	68	100.0%	97^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	52	26.7%	72^nd
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	21	30.4%	77^th
1860 Mar-May	126	38	30.2%	60^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	58	59.8%	86^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	33	23.4%	51^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