Samuel Benson, former Representative from Maine's 4th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1855-1857	Representative	Maine's 4^th District
1853-1855	Representative	Maine's 4^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1853 to Mar 1857, Benson missed 110 of 1,324 roll call votes, which is 8.3%. This is better than the median of 25.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1857. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	110	14	12.7%	29^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	32	10.5%	4^th
1854 Aug-Aug	33	5	15.2%	31^st
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	20	12.9%	24^th
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	174	2	1.1%	2^nd
1856 Apr-Jul	200	23	11.5%	11^th
1856 Aug-Aug	73	3	4.1%	13^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	230	11	4.8%	9^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