Rep. Clinton Merriam

Former Representative for New York’s 21^st District

Merriam was the representative for New York’s 21^st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1873 to 1875.

He was previously the representative for New York’s 20^th congressional district as a Republican from 1871 to 1873.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1871 to Mar 1875, Merriam missed 86 of 991 roll call votes, which is 8.7%. This is better than the median of 22.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1875. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1871 Mar-Apr	87	2	2.3%	1^st
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	89	3	3.4%	9^th
1872 Mar-May	156	9	5.8%	3^rd
1872 Jun-Jun	35	2	5.7%	9^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	150	1	0.7%	1^st
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	78	11	14.1%	39^th
1874 Mar-May	101	4	4.0%	7^th
1874 Jun-Jun	60	5	8.3%	17^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	235	49	20.9%	39^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
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

Rep. Clinton Merriam

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources