Jabez Huntington, former Senator from Connecticut

Dates	Title	Representing
1845-1847	Senator	Connecticut
1840-1845	Senator	Connecticut
1833-1835	Representative	Connecticut
1831-1833	Representative	Connecticut
1829-1831	Representative	Connecticut

Voting Record

From Jun 1840 to May 1848, Huntington missed 317 of 1,705 roll call votes, which is 18.6%. This is better than the median of 19.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in May 1848. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1840 Jun-Jul	140	38	27.1%	55^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	71	19	26.8%	58^th
1841 Jun-Sep	317	18	5.7%	27^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	44	7	15.9%	71^st
1842 Apr-Jul	194	37	19.1%	43^rd
1842 Aug-Aug	127	27	21.3%	57^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	127	37	29.1%	86^th
1841 Mar-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1844 Jan-Feb	28	9	32.1%	82^nd
1844 Mar-May	106	24	22.6%	38^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	19	25.0%	61^st
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	95	10	10.5%	58^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	29	8	27.6%	84^th
1846 Apr-Jul	167	24	14.4%	45^th
1846 Aug-Aug	50	21	42.0%	88^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	126	19	15.1%	42^nd
1845 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1848 Apr-Jul	1	0	0.0%	0^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