Benjamin Ruggles, former Senator from Ohio

Dates	Title	Representing
1827-1833	Senator	Ohio
1821-1827	Senator	Ohio
1815-1821	Senator	Ohio

Voting Record

From Dec 1815 to Mar 1833, Ruggles missed 224 of 1,855 roll call votes, which is 12.1%. This is better than the median of 12.1% among the lifetime records of senators 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 1815-Apr 1816	134	10	7.5%	0^th
Dec 1816-Mar 1817	53	1	1.9%	0^th
Dec 1817-Apr 1818	67	4	6.0%	0^th
Dec 1818-Mar 1819	65	5	7.7%	0^th
1820 Jan-May	68	3	4.4%	0^th
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	52	11	21.2%	50^th
1822 Jan-May	61	6	9.8%	63^rd
Dec 1822-Mar 1823	29	6	20.7%	67^th
Dec 1823-May 1824	126	4	3.2%	38^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	48	2	4.2%	14^th
Dec 1825-May 1826	123	25	20.3%	67^th
Dec 1826-Mar 1827	101	7	6.9%	20^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	173	4	2.3%	4^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	62	2	3.2%	20^th
Dec 1829-May 1830	178	9	5.1%	31^st
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	82	9	11.0%	38^th
1829 Mar-Mar	16	1	6.3%	31^st
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	12	1	8.3%	38^th
1832 Mar-May	81	14	17.3%	60^th
1832 Jun-Jul	188	42	22.3%	92^nd
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	136	58	42.6%	82^nd

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