Benjamin Tallmadge, former Representative from Connecticut's -1th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1815-1817	Representative	Connecticut
1811-1815	Representative	Connecticut
1807-1811	Representative	Connecticut
1805-1807	Representative	Connecticut
1803-1805	Representative	Connecticut
1801-1803	Representative	Connecticut

Voting Record

From Dec 1801 to Mar 1817, Tallmadge missed 626 of 1,731 roll call votes, which is 36.2%. This is worse than the median of 16.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1817. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1801-May 1802	94	24	25.5%	67^th
Dec 1802-Mar 1803	48	34	70.8%	87^th
Oct 1803-Mar 1804	96	78	81.3%	90^th
Nov 1804-Mar 1805	35	5	14.3%	52^nd
Dec 1805-Apr 1806	103	5	4.9%	8^th
Dec 1806-Mar 1807	55	9	16.4%	44^th
1807 Oct-Dec	35	2	5.7%	34^th
1808 Jan-Mar	49	13	26.5%	69^th
1808 Apr-Apr	35	7	20.0%	53^rd
Nov 1808-Mar 1809	111	16	14.4%	36^th
1809 May-Jun	36	8	22.2%	67^th
Dec 1809-Jan 1810	29	3	10.3%	43^rd
1810 Feb-Apr	121	51	42.1%	81^st
1810 May-May	3	3	100.0%	69^th
Dec 1810-Mar 1811	104	41	39.4%	88^th
Nov 1811-Feb 1812	82	17	20.7%	75^th
1812 Mar-Jun	126	25	19.8%	73^rd
1812 Jul-Jul	14	14	100.0%	82^nd
Nov 1812-Mar 1813	90	15	16.7%	54^th
1813 May-Aug	72	37	51.4%	91^st
Dec 1813-Apr 1814	110	18	16.4%	52^nd
1814 Sep-Nov	54	44	81.5%	98^th
Dec 1814-Feb 1815	106	105	99.1%	98^th
1815 Mar-Mar	10	10	100.0%	83^rd
Dec 1815-Apr 1816	72	38	52.8%	87^th
1817 Jan-Mar	41	4	9.8%	35^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