Rep. Thomas Ross
Former Representative for Pennsylvania’s 6th District
Ross was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 6th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1851 to 1853.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from Dec. 3, 1849 to March 3, 1851.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1849 to Mar 1853, Ross missed 262 of 1,027 roll call votes, which is 25.5%. This is on par with the median of 26.5% 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 absences, 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
