John Holmes, former Senator from Maine

Dates	Title	Representing
1829-1833	Senator	Maine
1820-1827	Senator	Maine
1819-1821	Representative	Massachusetts's 14^th District
1817-1819	Representative	Massachusetts's 14^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1820 to Mar 1833, Holmes missed 152 of 1,286 roll call votes, which is 11.8%. This is better than the median of 12.1% among the lifetime records of senators 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 1820-Mar 1821	52	2	3.8%	0^th
1822 Jan-May	61	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1822-Mar 1823	29	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1823-May 1824	126	2	1.6%	15^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	48	5	10.4%	71^st
Dec 1825-May 1826	123	10	8.1%	33^rd
Dec 1826-Mar 1827	101	11	10.9%	65^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	53	2	3.8%	36^th
Dec 1829-May 1830	178	33	18.5%	81^st
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	82	23	28.0%	88^th
1829 Mar-Mar	16	6	37.5%	59^th
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1832 Mar-May	81	17	21.0%	71^st
1832 Jun-Jul	188	17	9.0%	54^th
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	136	24	17.6%	36^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