Rep. John Schumaker

Former Representative from New York’s 2^nd District, Democrat

Schumaker, a Democrat, was the representative for New York's 2^nd congressional district from 1875 to 1877.

He was previously the representative for New York's 2^nd congressional district (1873-1875); and the representative for New York's 2^nd congressional district (1869-1871).

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Voting Record

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From Mar 1869 to Mar 1877, Schumaker missed 817 of 1,436 roll call votes, which is 56.9%. This is much worse than the median of 26.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1877. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1869 Mar-Apr	83	57	68.7%	97^th
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	71	28	39.4%	91^st
1870 Mar-May	152	71	46.7%	88^th
1870 Jun-Jul	170	71	41.8%	83^rd
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	158	53	33.5%	73^rd
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	78	26	33.3%	85^th
1874 Mar-May	101	57	56.4%	96^th
1874 Jun-Jun	60	27	45.0%	88^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	235	175	74.5%	96^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	60	38	63.3%	96^th
1876 Apr-Jul	106	87	82.1%	98^th
1876 Aug-Aug	37	37	100.0%	87^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	125	90	72.0%	97^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo

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