Benjamin Swift, former Senator from Vermont

Dates	Title	Representing
1833-1839	Senator	Vermont
1829-1831	Representative	Vermont's 4^th District
1827-1829	Representative	Vermont's 4^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1833 to Mar 1839, Swift missed 134 of 1,060 roll call votes, which is 12.6%. 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 1833-Feb 1834	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1834 Mar-May	67	3	4.5%	8^th
1834 Jun-Jun	69	16	23.2%	75^th
1835 Jan-Mar	79	6	7.6%	22^nd
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1836 Mar-May	137	17	12.4%	37^th
1836 Jun-Jul	86	9	10.5%	22^nd
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	186	17	9.1%	25^th
1837 Sep-Oct	36	2	5.6%	37^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	63	13	20.6%	51^st
1838 Mar-May	91	6	6.6%	13^th
1838 Jun-Jul	78	32	41.0%	75^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	134	13	9.7%	21^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo