Rep. John Scott

Former Representative from Missouri’s 1^st District, Adams

Bioguide

Scott, a Adams, was the representative for Missouri's 1^st congressional district from 1825 to 1827.

He was previously the representative for Missouri's 1^st congressional district (1823-1825; None); the representative for Missouri's 1^st congressional district (1821-1823; Republican); the representative for Missouri (1819-1821; None); the representative for Missouri (1817-1819; None); and the representative for Missouri (1815-1817; None).

Voting Record

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From Dec 1821 to Mar 1827, Scott missed 46 of 300 roll call votes, which is 15.3%. This is on par with the median of 16.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1827. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1821-May 1822	71	9	12.7%	52^nd
1823 Jan-Mar	24	13	54.2%	92^nd
Dec 1823-May 1824	79	11	13.9%	59^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	15	2	13.3%	41^st
1826 Jan-May	58	6	10.3%	20^th
1827 Jan-Mar	53	5	9.4%	32^nd

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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