Nathaniel Tallmadge, former Senator from New York

Dates	Title	Representing
1839-1845	Senator	New York
1833-1839	Senator	New York

Voting Record

From Dec 1833 to Jun 1844, Tallmadge missed 483 of 2,412 roll call votes, which is 20.0%. This is worse than the median of 16.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1844. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1834 Mar-May	67	15	22.4%	33^rd
1834 Jun-Jun	69	18	26.1%	67^th
1835 Jan-Mar	79	3	3.8%	0^th
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	21	1	4.8%	22^nd
1836 Mar-May	137	15	10.9%	40^th
1836 Jun-Jul	86	11	12.8%	45^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	187	31	16.6%	50^th
1837 Sep-Oct	36	5	13.9%	60^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	63	34	54.0%	94^th
1838 Mar-May	91	38	41.8%	81^st
1838 Jun-Jul	78	14	17.9%	38^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	134	31	23.1%	41^st
1840 Jan-Feb	36	26	72.2%	94^th
1840 Mar-May	79	41	51.9%	83^rd
1840 Jun-Jul	140	30	21.4%	63^rd
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	71	5	7.0%	17^th
1841 Jun-Sep	317	14	4.4%	19^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	44	4	9.1%	32^nd
1842 Apr-Jul	194	44	22.7%	61^st
1842 Aug-Aug	127	14	11.0%	14^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	127	21	16.5%	41^st
1841 Mar-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1844 Jan-Feb	28	5	17.9%	50^th
1844 Mar-May	106	37	34.9%	75^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	26	34.2%	83^rd

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