Rep. Legrand Perce

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

Perce, a Republican, was the representative for Mississippi's 5^th congressional district from 1869 to 1873.

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Voting Record

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From Feb 1870 to Mar 1873, Perce missed 266 of 1,002 roll call votes, which is 26.5%. This is on par with the median of 24.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1873. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1870 Mar-May	152	40	26.3%	57^th
1870 Jun-Jul	170	60	35.3%	77^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	158	32	20.3%	60^th
1871 Mar-Apr	87	24	27.6%	75^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	89	16	18.0%	49^th
1872 Mar-May	156	50	32.1%	55^th
1872 Jun-Jun	35	5	14.3%	32^nd
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	150	39	26.0%	50^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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