Rep. John Maxwell

Former Representative from New Jersey, Whig

Maxwell, a Whig, was the representative for New Jersey from 1841 to 1843.

He was previously the representative for New Jersey (1837-1839).

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Voting Record

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From Sep 1837 to Mar 1843, Maxwell missed 186 of 1,449 roll call votes, which is 12.8%. This is better than the median of 26.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1843. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1837 Sep-Oct	54	4	7.4%	42^nd
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	4	7.7%	27^th
1838 Mar-May	122	39	32.0%	64^th
1838 Jun-Jul	102	14	13.7%	26^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	145	23	15.9%	25^th
1841 May-Sep	264	15	5.7%	1^st
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	204	27	13.2%	23^rd
1842 Apr-Jul	218	39	17.9%	29^th
1842 Aug-Aug	116	11	9.5%	16^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	10	5.8%	7^th

Primary Sources

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

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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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