Winfield Featherston, former Representative from Mississippi's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1849-1851	Representative	Mississippi's 2^nd District
1847-1849	Representative	Mississippi's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1847 to Mar 1851, Featherston missed 125 of 1,038 roll call votes, which is 12.0%. This is better than the median of 21.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1851. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	90	11	12.2%	32^nd
1848 Apr-Jul	151	15	9.9%	10^th
1848 Aug-Aug	70	9	12.9%	28^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	22	14.2%	28^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	13	12.0%	34^th
1850 Mar-May	68	25	36.8%	65^th
1850 Jun-Aug	146	7	4.8%	10^th
1850 Sep-Sep	117	4	3.4%	6^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	19	14.3%	30^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