Rep. Edward McGaughey

Former Representative for Indiana’s 7^th District

McGaughey was the representative for Indiana’s 7^th congressional district and was a Whig. He served from 1849 to 1851.

He was previously the representative for Indiana’s 7^th congressional district as a Whig from 1845 to 1847.

Bioguide

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1845 to Mar 1851, McGaughey missed 284 of 1,214 roll call votes, which is 23.4%. This is on par with the median of 21.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1851. 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
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	149	17	11.4%	17^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	44	16.7%	21^st
1846 Aug-Aug	51	26	51.0%	85^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	179	50	27.9%	53^rd
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	32	29.6%	78^th
1850 Mar-May	68	18	26.5%	50^th
1850 Jun-Aug	146	37	25.3%	67^th
1850 Sep-Sep	117	46	39.3%	79^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	14	10.5%	19^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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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