Rep. Ephraim Smart

Former Representative for Maine’s 5^th District

Smart was the representative for Maine’s 5^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1851 to 1853.

He was previously the representative for Maine’s 5^th congressional district as a Democrat from Dec 6, 1847 to Mar 3, 1849.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1847 to Mar 1853, Smart missed 275 of 933 roll call votes, which is 29.5%. This is on par with the median of 27.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1853. 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 1847-Mar 1848	101	19	18.8%	34^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	27	17.9%	39^th
1848 Aug-Aug	71	21	29.6%	70^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	18	11.6%	23^rd
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	96	17	17.7%	30^th
1852 Apr-Jul	180	55	30.6%	52^nd
1852 Aug-Aug	65	55	84.6%	90^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	63	55.3%	86^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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources