Nathaniel Silsbee, former Senator from Massachusetts

Dates	Title	Representing
1829-1835	Senator	Massachusetts
1826-1829	Senator	Massachusetts
1819-1821	Representative	Massachusetts's 2^nd District
1817-1819	Representative	Massachusetts's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From May 1826 to Mar 1835, Silsbee missed 132 of 1,258 roll call votes, which is 10.5%. This is better than the median of 15.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1835. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1825-May 1826	1	1	100.0%	92^nd
Dec 1826-Mar 1827	101	9	8.9%	31^st
Dec 1827-May 1828	173	9	5.2%	19^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	62	2	3.2%	19^th
Dec 1829-May 1830	178	9	5.1%	30^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	82	6	7.3%	12^th
1829 Mar-Mar	16	6	37.5%	58^th
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	12	1	8.3%	37^th
1832 Mar-May	81	14	17.3%	62^nd
1832 Jun-Jul	188	11	5.9%	38^th
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	136	34	25.0%	66^th
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1834 Mar-May	67	2	3.0%	10^th
1834 Jun-Jun	69	8	11.6%	39^th
1835 Jan-Mar	79	20	25.3%	86^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