Rep. Presley Ewing

Former Representative for Kentucky’s 3^rd District

Ewing was the representative for Kentucky’s 3^rd congressional district and was a Whig. He served from 1853 to 1855.

He was previously the representative for Kentucky’s 3^rd congressional district as a Whig from 1851 to 1853.

Bioguide

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1851 to Aug 1854, Ewing missed 572 of 907 roll call votes, which is 63.1%. This is much worse than the median of 31.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Aug 1854. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	96	32	33.3%	74^th
1852 Apr-Jul	180	93	51.7%	91^st
1852 Aug-Aug	65	45	69.2%	85^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	69	60.5%	93^rd
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	114	46	40.4%	79^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	254	83.3%	97^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	33	100.0%	90^th

Primary Sources

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

unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
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

Rep. Presley Ewing

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources