Benjamin Thurston, former Representative from Rhode Island's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1855-1857	Representative	Rhode Island's 2^nd District
1853-1855	Representative	Rhode Island's 2^nd District
1851-1853	Representative	Rhode Island's 2^nd District
1847-1849	Representative	Rhode Island's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1847 to Mar 1857, Thurston missed 264 of 2,241 roll call votes, which is 11.8%. This is better than the median of 25.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1857. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	90	20	22.2%	67^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	13	8.6%	20^th
1848 Aug-Aug	70	8	11.4%	17^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	10	6.5%	4^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	93	11	11.8%	23^rd
1852 Apr-Jul	178	23	12.9%	17^th
1852 Aug-Aug	64	9	14.1%	21^st
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	10	8.8%	11^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	111	7	6.3%	8^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	47	15.4%	12^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	8	24.2%	56^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	22	14.2%	26^th
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	174	36	20.7%	61^st
1856 Apr-Jul	200	5	2.5%	1^st
1856 Aug-Aug	73	3	4.1%	13^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	6	13.6%	60^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	231	26	11.3%	23^rd

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