Wilson Nicholas, former Representative from Virginia's 21st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1807-1811	Representative	Virginia's 21^st District
1799-1805	Senator	Virginia

Voting Record

From Oct 1807 to Jun 1809, Nicholas missed 52 of 266 roll call votes, which is 19.5%. This is better than the median of 19.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1809. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1807 Oct-Dec	35	6	17.1%	73^rd
1808 Jan-Mar	49	8	16.3%	52^nd
1808 Apr-Apr	35	6	17.1%	36^th
Nov 1808-Mar 1809	111	12	10.8%	22^nd
1809 May-Jun	36	20	55.6%	92^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo