Timothy Pickering, former Representative from Massachusetts's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1815-1817	Representative	Massachusetts's 2^nd District
1813-1815	Representative	Massachusetts's 3^rd District
1805-1811	Senator	Massachusetts
1803-1805	Senator	Massachusetts

Voting Record

From May 1813 to Mar 1817, Pickering missed 45 of 465 roll call votes, which is 9.7%. This is better than the median of 16.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1817. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1813 May-Aug	72	2	2.8%	10^th
Dec 1813-Apr 1814	110	21	19.1%	61^st
1814 Sep-Nov	54	9	16.7%	61^st
Dec 1814-Feb 1815	106	8	7.5%	32^nd
1815 Mar-Mar	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1815-Apr 1816	72	4	5.6%	8^th
1817 Jan-Mar	41	1	2.4%	7^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