Elijah Mills, former Senator from Massachusetts

Dates	Title	Representing
1820-1827	Senator	Massachusetts
1817-1819	Representative	Massachusetts's 5^th District
1815-1817	Representative	Massachusetts's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1820 to Mar 1827, Mills missed 144 of 540 roll call votes, which is 26.7%. This is worse than the median of 9.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1827. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	52	3	5.8%	28^th
1822 Jan-May	61	25	41.0%	95^th
Dec 1822-Mar 1823	29	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1823-May 1824	126	8	6.3%	47^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	48	8	16.7%	70^th
Dec 1825-May 1826	123	44	35.8%	79^th
Dec 1826-Mar 1827	101	56	55.4%	94^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