Benjamin Gorham, former Representative from Massachusetts's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1833-1835	Representative	Massachusetts's 1^st District
1829-1831	Representative	Massachusetts's 1^st District
1827-1829	Representative	Massachusetts's 1^st District
1821-1823	Representative	Massachusetts's 1^st District
1819-1821	Representative	Massachusetts's 1^st District

Voting Record

From May 1820 to Mar 1835, Gorham missed 309 of 982 roll call votes, which is 31.5%. This is worse than the median of 18.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1835. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1819-May 1820	1	1	100.0%	85^th
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	59	4	6.8%	15^th
Dec 1821-May 1822	71	11	15.5%	67^th
1823 Jan-Mar	24	5	20.8%	52^nd
Dec 1827-May 1828	158	33	20.9%	72^nd
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	73	20	27.4%	64^th
Dec 1829-May 1830	183	44	24.0%	86^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	88	71	80.7%	97^th
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	35	7	20.0%	81^st
1834 Mar-May	91	49	53.8%	94^th
1834 Jun-Jun	94	38	40.4%	82^nd
Dec 1834-Mar 1835	105	26	24.8%	71^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