Rep. Benjamin Whittemore
Former Representative from South Carolina's 1st District
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Representative | South Carolina's 1st District |
See Also: Congress.gov
Voting Record
From Jul 1868 to Feb 1870, Whittemore missed 59 of 388 roll call votes, which is 15.2%. This is better than the median of 24.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1870. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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