Rufus Choate, former Senator from Massachusetts

Dates	Title	Representing
1841-1845	Senator	Massachusetts
1833-1835	Representative	Massachusetts's 2^nd District
1831-1833	Representative	Massachusetts's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Mar 1841 to Mar 1845, Choate missed 213 of 1,142 roll call votes, which is 18.7%. This is worse than the median of 16.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1845. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	22	4	18.2%	54^th
1841 Jun-Sep	317	40	12.6%	66^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	44	10	22.7%	65^th
1842 Apr-Jul	194	46	23.7%	67^th
1842 Aug-Aug	127	21	16.5%	39^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	127	39	30.7%	81^st
1841 Mar-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1844 Jan-Feb	28	10	35.7%	79^th
1844 Mar-May	106	23	21.7%	43^rd
1844 Jun-Jun	76	7	9.2%	8^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	95	13	13.7%	53^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