Oliver Ellsworth, former Senator from Connecticut

Dates	Title	Representing
1791-1797	Senator	Connecticut
1789-1791	Senator	Connecticut

Voting Record

From Jul 1789 to Mar 1796, Ellsworth missed 4 of 258 roll call votes, which is 1.6%. This is better than the median of 8.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1796. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1789 Jul-Aug	10	1	10.0%	50^th
1789 Sep-Sep	11	0	0.0%	0^th
1790 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1790 May-Jun	32	1	3.1%	38^th
1790 Jul-Aug	28	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1790-Mar 1791	18	1	5.6%	13^th
1791 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1792 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1792 Apr-May	8	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1792-Mar 1793	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1794 Jan-Feb	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1794 Mar-May	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1794 Jun-Jun	8	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1794-Mar 1795	19	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1795-Jan 1796	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1796 Mar-May	6	1	16.7%	65^th
1795 Jun-Jun	14	0	0.0%	0^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