Benedict Semmes, former Representative from Maryland's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1831-1833	Representative	Maryland's 2^nd District
1829-1831	Representative	Maryland's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1829 to Mar 1833, Semmes missed 294 of 733 roll call votes, which is 40.1%. This is worse than the median of 16.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1833. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1829-May 1830	183	28	15.3%	58^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	88	43	48.9%	97^th
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	53	53	100.0%	97^th
1832 Mar-May	98	54	55.1%	93^rd
1832 Jun-Jul	168	50	29.8%	77^th
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	143	66	46.2%	91^st

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