Akers was the representative for Missouri’s 5th congressional district and was an American. He served from 1855 to 1857.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Aug 1856 to Mar 1857, Akers missed 77 of 277 roll call votes, which is 27.8%. This is on par with the median of 25.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1857. 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.
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
