Rep. Francis Granger

Former Representative for New York’s 26^th District

Granger was the representative for New York’s 26^th congressional district and was a Whig. He served from 1839 to 1843.

He was previously the representative for New York’s 26^th congressional district as a Whig from 1835 to 1837.

Bioguide

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1835 to Mar 1843, Granger missed 558 of 1,920 roll call votes, which is 29.1%. This is on par with the median of 26.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1843. 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 1835-Feb 1836	57	2	3.5%	10^th
1836 Mar-May	150	7	4.7%	2^nd
1836 Jun-Jul	116	18	15.5%	29^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	14	10.3%	9^th
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	170	7	4.1%	0^th
1840 Mar-May	250	196	78.4%	97^th
1840 Jun-Jul	208	193	92.8%	98^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	32	26.0%	45^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	204	10	4.9%	6^th
1842 Apr-Jul	218	37	17.0%	27^th
1842 Aug-Aug	116	12	10.3%	19^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	30	17.4%	34^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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