Nathaniel Macon, former Senator from North Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1825-1829	Senator	North Carolina
1819-1825	Senator	North Carolina
1815-1819	Senator	North Carolina
1815-1817	Representative	North Carolina's 6^th District
1811-1815	Representative	North Carolina's 6^th District
1807-1811	Representative	North Carolina's 6^th District
1805-1807	Representative	North Carolina's 6^th District
1803-1805	Representative	North Carolina's 6^th District
1801-1803	Representative	North Carolina's 5^th District
1799-1801	Representative	North Carolina's 5^th District
1795-1799	Representative	North Carolina's 5^th District
1793-1795	Representative	North Carolina's 5^th District
1791-1793	Representative	North Carolina's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1815 to May 1828, Macon missed 18 of 1,100 roll call votes, which is 1.6%. This is better than the median of 9.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in May 1828. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1815-Apr 1816	134	3	2.2%	0^th
Dec 1816-Mar 1817	53	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1817-Apr 1818	67	3	4.5%	0^th
Dec 1818-Mar 1819	65	1	1.5%	0^th
1820 Jan-May	68	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	52	1	1.9%	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	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	48	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1825-May 1826	123	7	5.7%	18^th
Dec 1826-Mar 1827	101	1	1.0%	0^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	173	2	1.2%	2^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo