Rep. Isaac Fletcher

Former Representative for Vermont’s 5^th District

Fletcher was the representative for Vermont’s 5^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1839 to 1841.

He was previously the representative for Vermont’s 5^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1837 to 1839.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Sep 1837 to Mar 1841, Fletcher missed 694 of 1,226 roll call votes, which is 56.6%. This is much worse than the median of 30.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1841. 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
1837 Sep-Oct	54	28	51.9%	96^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	21	40.4%	89^th
1838 Mar-May	122	86	70.5%	99^th
1838 Jun-Jul	102	50	49.0%	91^st
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	145	64	44.1%	86^th
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	170	59	34.7%	80^th
1840 Mar-May	250	152	60.8%	86^th
1840 Jun-Jul	208	130	62.5%	88^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	104	84.6%	97^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

Primary Sources