Samuel Smith, former Senator from Maryland

Dates	Title	Representing
1827-1833	Senator	Maryland
1822-1827	Senator	Maryland
1819-1821	Representative	Maryland's 5^th District
1817-1819	Representative	Maryland's 5^th District
1815-1817	Representative	Maryland's 5^th District
1803-1815	Senator	Maryland
1801-1803	Representative	Maryland's 5^th District
1799-1801	Representative	Maryland's 5^th District
1795-1799	Representative	Maryland's 5^th District
1793-1795	Representative	Maryland's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Oct 1803 to Mar 1833, Smith missed 275 of 2,317 roll call votes, which is 11.9%. This is better than the median of 12.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1833. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Oct 1803-Mar 1804	104	12	11.5%	50^th
Nov 1804-Mar 1805	46	2	4.3%	50^th
Dec 1805-Apr 1806	68	1	1.5%	0^th
Dec 1806-Mar 1807	20	4	20.0%	33^rd
1807 Dec-Dec	7	1	14.3%	50^th
1808 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	0^th
1808 Apr-Apr	20	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1808-Mar 1809	42	14	33.3%	0^th
1809 Jun-Jun	14	14	100.0%	0^th
Dec 1809-Jan 1810	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1810 Feb-Apr	86	2	2.3%	0^th
1810 May-May	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1810-Mar 1811	53	1	1.9%	0^th
1809 Mar-Mar	2	0	0.0%	0^th
Nov 1811-Feb 1812	28	2	7.1%	50^th
1812 Mar-Jun	77	10	13.0%	50^th
1812 Jul-Jul	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Nov 1812-Mar 1813	89	7	7.9%	0^th
1813 Jun-Aug	63	36	57.1%	50^th
Dec 1813-Apr 1814	89	8	9.0%	0^th
1814 Sep-Nov	18	3	16.7%	0^th
Dec 1814-Feb 1815	86	1	1.2%	0^th
1815 Mar-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1822-Mar 1823	29	2	6.9%	22^nd
Dec 1823-May 1824	126	6	4.8%	46^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	48	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1825-May 1826	123	11	8.9%	38^th
Dec 1826-Mar 1827	101	3	3.0%	5^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	173	9	5.2%	22^nd
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	62	12	19.4%	76^th
Dec 1829-May 1830	178	56	31.5%	94^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	82	5	6.1%	12^th
1829 Mar-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	12	2	16.7%	64^th
1832 Mar-May	81	4	4.9%	19^th
1832 Jun-Jul	188	21	11.2%	69^th
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	136	25	18.4%	42^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo