Martin Van Buren, former President

Dates	Title	Representing
1837-1841	President
1833-1837	Vice President
1827-1829	Senator	New York
1821-1827	Senator	New York

Voting Record

From Jan 1822 to Jan 1829, Van Buren missed 121 of 663 roll call votes, which is 18.3%. This is worse than the median of 9.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 1829. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1822 Jan-May	61	14	23.0%	88^th
Dec 1822-Mar 1823	29	2	6.9%	33^rd
Dec 1823-May 1824	126	17	13.5%	76^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	48	2	4.2%	21^st
Dec 1825-May 1826	123	18	14.6%	58^th
Dec 1826-Mar 1827	101	30	29.7%	93^rd
Dec 1827-May 1828	173	36	20.8%	88^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	2	2	100.0%	96^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