Sen. Christopher Ellery

Former Senator from Rhode Island

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1801-1805	Senator	Rhode Island

Voting Record

From Dec 1801 to Mar 1805, Ellery missed 10 of 237 roll call votes, which is 4.2%. This is better than the median of 10.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1805. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1801-May 1802	60	1	1.7%	9^th
Dec 1802-Mar 1803	27	3	11.1%	43^rd
Oct 1803-Mar 1804	104	3	2.9%	13^th
Nov 1804-Mar 1805	46	3	6.5%	43^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Christopher Ellery [R-RI, 1801-1805] leaves office as Senator from Rhode Island

Mar 03, 1805

Elections and Offices

Sen. Christopher Ellery [R-RI, 1801-1805] takes office as Senator from Rhode Island

Dec 07, 1801