Samuel Prentiss, former Senator from Vermont

Dates	Title	Representing
1837-1843	Senator	Vermont
1831-1837	Senator	Vermont

Voting Record

From Dec 1831 to Apr 1842, Prentiss missed 501 of 2,175 roll call votes, which is 23.0%. This is worse than the median of 18.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Apr 1842. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	12	3	25.0%	63^rd
1832 Mar-May	81	5	6.2%	0^th
1832 Jun-Jul	188	27	14.4%	80^th
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	136	28	20.6%	38^th
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1834 Mar-May	67	10	14.9%	18^th
1834 Jun-Jun	69	21	30.4%	91^st
1835 Jan-Mar	79	14	17.7%	69^th
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1836 Mar-May	137	38	27.7%	63^rd
1836 Jun-Jul	86	36	41.9%	94^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	186	38	20.4%	50^th
1837 Sep-Oct	36	14	38.9%	81^st
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	63	16	25.4%	64^th
1838 Mar-May	91	22	24.2%	57^th
1838 Jun-Jul	78	39	50.0%	86^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	134	26	19.4%	43^rd
1840 Jan-Feb	36	2	5.6%	15^th
1840 Mar-May	79	21	26.6%	55^th
1840 Jun-Jul	140	75	53.6%	94^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	71	16	22.5%	69^th
1841 Jun-Sep	317	36	11.4%	53^rd
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	43	9	20.9%	60^th
1842 Apr-Jul	6	1	16.7%	49^th
1841 Mar-Mar	6	4	66.7%	90^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