Abbott Lawrence, former Representative from Massachusetts's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1839-1841	Representative	Massachusetts's 1^st District
1835-1837	Representative	Massachusetts's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1835 to Jul 1840, Lawrence missed 486 of 1,082 roll call votes, which is 44.9%. This is worse than the median of 29.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jul 1840. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	1	1.8%	11^th
1836 Mar-May	150	14	9.3%	13^th
1836 Jun-Jul	116	3	2.6%	2^nd
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	7	5.1%	2^nd
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	166	15	9.0%	24^th
1840 Mar-May	250	239	95.6%	98^th
1840 Jun-Jul	207	207	100.0%	98^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