John Adams, former Representative from Massachusetts's 8th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1847-1849	Representative	Massachusetts's 8^th District
1845-1847	Representative	Massachusetts's 8^th District
1843-1845	Representative	Massachusetts's 8^th District
1839-1843	Representative	Massachusetts's 12^th District
1837-1839	Representative	Massachusetts's 12^th District
1835-1837	Representative	Massachusetts's 12^th District
1833-1835	Representative	Massachusetts's 12^th District
1831-1833	Representative	Massachusetts's 11^th District
1825-1829	President
1803-1809	Senator	Massachusetts

Voting Record

From Dec 1831 to Feb 1848, Adams missed 580 of 4,709 roll call votes, which is 12.3%. This is better than the median of 23.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1848. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1832 Mar-May	98	24	24.5%	73^rd
1832 Jun-Jul	168	11	6.5%	0^th
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	143	7	4.9%	0^th
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1834 Mar-May	91	0	0.0%	0^th
1834 Jun-Jun	94	1	1.1%	15^th
Dec 1834-Mar 1835	105	2	1.9%	0^th
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1836 Mar-May	150	23	15.3%	24^th
1836 Jun-Jul	116	5	4.3%	0^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	24	17.6%	29^th
1837 Sep-Oct	54	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	3	5.8%	25^th
1838 Mar-May	120	5	4.2%	0^th
1838 Jun-Jul	100	12	12.0%	12^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	140	6	4.3%	6^th
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	167	5	3.0%	4^th
1840 Mar-May	250	72	28.8%	21^st
1840 Jun-Jul	207	42	20.3%	22^nd
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	121	29	24.0%	42^nd
1841 May-Sep	254	9	3.5%	7^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	203	14	6.9%	10^th
1842 Apr-Jul	216	11	5.1%	7^th
1842 Aug-Aug	116	2	1.7%	3^rd
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	6	3.5%	0^th
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	128	7	5.5%	16^th
1844 Mar-May	207	13	6.3%	7^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	10	13.2%	20^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	170	18	10.6%	15^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	144	13	9.0%	13^th
1846 Apr-Jul	263	47	17.9%	28^th
1846 Aug-Aug	51	11	21.6%	48^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	178	139	78.1%	98^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	74	9	12.2%	33^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