Sen. Ether Shepley

Former Senator from Maine

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1833-1837	Senator	Maine

Voting Record

From Dec 1833 to Jun 1836, Shepley missed 16 of 436 roll call votes, which is 3.7%. This is better than the median of 19.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1836. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1834 Mar-May	67	0	0.0%	0^th
1834 Jun-Jun	69	2	2.9%	6^th
1835 Jan-Mar	79	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	21	2	9.5%	51^st
1836 Mar-May	136	10	7.4%	22^nd
1836 Jun-Jul	51	2	3.9%	6^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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Ether Shepley [J-ME, 1833-1837] leaves office as Senator from Maine

Mar 03, 1837

Elections and Offices

Sen. Ether Shepley [J-ME, 1833-1837] takes office as Senator from Maine

Dec 02, 1833