Charles Atherton, former Senator from New Hampshire

Dates	Title	Representing
1853-1853	Senator	New Hampshire
1843-1849	Senator	New Hampshire
1839-1843	Representative	New Hampshire
1837-1839	Representative	New Hampshire

Voting Record

From Jan 1844 to Apr 1853, Atherton missed 116 of 1,044 roll call votes, which is 11.1%. This is better than the median of 25.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Apr 1853. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1844 Jan-Feb	28	7	25.0%	40^th
1844 Mar-May	106	11	10.4%	0^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	5	6.6%	0^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	95	1	1.1%	0^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	29	3	10.3%	50^th
1846 Apr-Jul	167	6	3.6%	0^th
1846 Aug-Aug	50	2	4.0%	0^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	126	31	24.6%	57^th
1845 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	82	7	8.5%	11^th
1848 Apr-Jul	116	17	14.7%	17^th
1848 Aug-Aug	66	18	27.3%	59^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	80	7	8.8%	4^th
1853 Mar-Apr	22	1	4.5%	4^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