Joseph Tillinghast, former Representative from Rhode Island's -1th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1839-1843	Representative	Rhode Island
1837-1839	Representative	Rhode Island

Voting Record

From Sep 1837 to Mar 1843, Tillinghast missed 269 of 2,170 roll call votes, which is 12.4%. This is better than the median of 25.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1843. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1837 Sep-Oct	54	16	29.6%	84^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	10	19.2%	62^nd
1838 Mar-May	120	5	4.2%	3^rd
1838 Jun-Jul	100	14	14.0%	26^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	140	15	10.7%	13^th
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	166	10	6.0%	18^th
1840 Mar-May	250	48	19.2%	18^th
1840 Jun-Jul	207	31	15.0%	16^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	21	17.1%	19^th
1841 May-Sep	251	8	3.2%	2^nd
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	203	14	6.9%	12^th
1842 Apr-Jul	216	33	15.3%	25^th
1842 Aug-Aug	116	21	18.1%	36^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	23	13.4%	22^nd

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