Samuel Allen, former Representative from Massachusetts's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1827-1829	Representative	Massachusetts's 7^th District
1825-1827	Representative	Massachusetts's 7^th District
1823-1825	Representative	Massachusetts's 7^th District
1821-1823	Representative	Massachusetts's 6^th District
1819-1821	Representative	Massachusetts's 6^th District
1817-1819	Representative	Massachusetts's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1817 to Mar 1829, Allen missed 229 of 782 roll call votes, which is 29.3%. This is worse than the median of 16.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1829. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1817-Apr 1818	64	20	31.3%	79^th
Nov 1818-Mar 1819	42	13	31.0%	89^th
Dec 1819-May 1820	88	48	54.5%	89^th
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	59	3	5.1%	11^th
Dec 1821-May 1822	71	13	18.3%	65^th
1823 Jan-Mar	24	4	16.7%	47^th
Dec 1823-May 1824	79	17	21.5%	73^rd
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	14	3	21.4%	65^th
1826 Jan-May	57	18	31.6%	75^th
1827 Jan-Mar	53	15	28.3%	84^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	158	53	33.5%	85^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	73	22	30.1%	71^st

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