Jeremiah Nelson, former Representative from Massachusetts's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1831-1833	Representative	Massachusetts's 3^rd District
1823-1825	Representative	Massachusetts's 3^rd District
1821-1823	Representative	Massachusetts's 3^rd District
1819-1821	Representative	Massachusetts's 3^rd District
1817-1819	Representative	Massachusetts's 3^rd District
1815-1817	Representative	Massachusetts's 3^rd District
1805-1807	Representative	Massachusetts's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1805 to Mar 1833, Nelson missed 439 of 1,174 roll call votes, which is 37.4%. This is worse than the median of 16.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1833. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1805-Apr 1806	103	18	17.5%	50^th
Dec 1806-Mar 1807	55	9	16.4%	0^th
Dec 1815-Apr 1816	72	7	9.7%	28^th
1817 Jan-Mar	41	5	12.2%	37^th
Dec 1817-Apr 1818	64	7	10.9%	24^th
Nov 1818-Mar 1819	42	1	2.4%	6^th
Dec 1819-May 1820	88	11	12.5%	61^st
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	59	8	13.6%	56^th
Dec 1821-May 1822	71	15	21.1%	70^th
1823 Jan-Mar	24	5	20.8%	58^th
Dec 1823-May 1824	79	11	13.9%	59^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	14	5	35.7%	85^th
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	53	53	100.0%	97^th
1832 Mar-May	98	98	100.0%	99^th
1832 Jun-Jul	168	168	100.0%	99^th
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	143	18	12.6%	23^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