Coburn was the representative for Indiana’s 5th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1873 to 1875.
He was previously the representative for Indiana’s 5th congressional district as a Republican from 1869 to 1873; and the representative for Indiana’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1867 to 1869.
![Photo of Rep. John Coburn [R-IN5, 1873-1875]](/static/legislator-photos/402690-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1867 to Mar 1875, Coburn missed 362 of 2,342 roll call votes, which is 15.5%. 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.
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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
