William Shinn, former Representative from New Jersey's -1th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1835-1837	Representative	New Jersey
1833-1835	Representative	New Jersey

Voting Record

From Dec 1833 to Mar 1837, Shinn missed 109 of 784 roll call votes, which is 13.9%. This is better than the median of 21.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1837. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	35	2	5.7%	37^th
1834 Mar-May	91	18	19.8%	44^th
1834 Jun-Jun	94	12	12.8%	35^th
Dec 1834-Mar 1835	105	5	4.8%	6^th
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	5	8.8%	41^st
1836 Mar-May	150	41	27.3%	58^th
1836 Jun-Jul	116	21	18.1%	41^st
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	5	3.7%	2^nd

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