Samuel Lathrop, former Representative from Massachusetts's 8th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1825-1827	Representative	Massachusetts's 8^th District
1823-1825	Representative	Massachusetts's 8^th District
1821-1823	Representative	Massachusetts's 5^th District
1819-1821	Representative	Massachusetts's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1819 to Mar 1827, Lathrop missed 98 of 445 roll call votes, which is 22.0%. This is worse than the median of 15.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1827. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1819-May 1820	88	46	52.3%	87^th
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	59	3	5.1%	13^th
Dec 1821-May 1822	71	9	12.7%	52^nd
1823 Jan-Mar	24	1	4.2%	10^th
Dec 1823-May 1824	79	20	25.3%	83^rd
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	14	1	7.1%	20^th
1826 Jan-May	57	13	22.8%	59^th
1827 Jan-Mar	53	5	9.4%	32^nd

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