Benjamin Goodhue, former Senator from Massachusetts

Dates	Title	Representing
1796-1801	Senator	Massachusetts
1793-1795	Representative	Massachusetts's 1^st District
1791-1793	Representative	Massachusetts's 2^nd District
1789-1791	Representative	Massachusetts's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Jan 1797 to May 1800, Goodhue missed 13 of 303 roll call votes, which is 4.3%. This is better than the median of 15.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in May 1800. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1797 Jan-Mar	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1797 May-Jul	27	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1797-Feb 1798	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1798 Mar-Jun	85	1	1.2%	9^th
1798 Jul-Jul	37	2	5.4%	30^th
Dec 1798-Mar 1799	36	1	2.8%	15^th
Dec 1799-May 1800	81	9	11.1%	48^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