Asher Robbins, former Senator from Rhode Island

Dates	Title	Representing
1833-1839	Senator	Rhode Island
1827-1833	Senator	Rhode Island
1825-1827	Senator	Rhode Island

Voting Record

From Dec 1825 to Mar 1839, Robbins missed 280 of 2,212 roll call votes, which is 12.7%. This is better than the median of 19.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1839. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1825-May 1826	123	11	8.9%	17^th
Dec 1826-Mar 1827	101	2	2.0%	0^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	173	3	1.7%	0^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	62	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1829-May 1830	178	8	4.5%	25^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	82	3	3.7%	0^th
1829 Mar-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1832 Mar-May	81	4	4.9%	33^rd
1832 Jun-Jul	188	3	1.6%	0^th
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	136	8	5.9%	13^th
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	13	1	7.7%	59^th
1834 Mar-May	67	1	1.5%	4^th
1834 Jun-Jun	69	6	8.7%	25^th
1835 Jan-Mar	79	8	10.1%	44^th
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	21	1	4.8%	27^th
1836 Mar-May	137	20	14.6%	49^th
1836 Jun-Jul	86	17	19.8%	56^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	186	40	21.5%	57^th
1837 Sep-Oct	36	5	13.9%	50^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	63	26	41.3%	81^st
1838 Mar-May	91	33	36.3%	77^th
1838 Jun-Jul	78	33	42.3%	77^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	134	47	35.1%	69^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