Rep. John Rea

Former Representative from Pennsylvania’s 5^th District, Republican

Rea, a Republican, was the representative for Pennsylvania's 5^th congressional district from 1813 to 1815.

He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania's 7^th congressional district (1807-1811); the representative for Pennsylvania's 7^th congressional district (1805-1807); and the representative for Pennsylvania's 7^th congressional district (1803-1805).

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Voting Record

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From Oct 1803 to Mar 1815, Rea missed 125 of 1,170 roll call votes, which is 10.7%. This is better than the median of 18.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1815. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Oct 1803-Mar 1804	97	6	6.2%	27^th
Nov 1804-Mar 1805	35	1	2.9%	12^th
Dec 1805-Apr 1806	103	5	4.9%	11^th
Dec 1806-Mar 1807	55	6	10.9%	34^th
1807 Oct-Dec	35	1	2.9%	17^th
1808 Jan-Mar	49	6	12.2%	49^th
1808 Apr-Apr	35	35	100.0%	95^th
Nov 1808-Mar 1809	116	13	11.2%	30^th
1809 May-Jun	36	3	8.3%	31^st
Dec 1809-Jan 1810	29	3	10.3%	51^st
1810 Feb-Apr	121	7	5.8%	9^th
1810 May-May	3	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1810-Mar 1811	104	8	7.7%	10^th
1813 May-Aug	72	1	1.4%	4^th
Dec 1813-Apr 1814	110	8	7.3%	5^th
1814 Sep-Nov	54	17	31.5%	72^nd
Dec 1814-Feb 1815	106	0	0.0%	0^th
1815 Mar-Mar	10	5	50.0%	63^rd

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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