Sen. Tristram Dalton

Former Senator from Massachusetts

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1789-1791	Senator	Massachusetts

Voting Record

From Jul 1789 to Mar 1791, Dalton missed 1 of 100 roll call votes, which is 1.0%. This is better than the median of 5.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1791. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1789 Jul-Aug	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1789 Sep-Sep	11	0	0.0%	0^th
1790 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1790 May-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1790 Jul-Aug	28	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1790-Mar 1791	18	1	5.6%	12^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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Tristram Dalton [P-MA, 1789-1791] leaves office as Senator from Massachusetts

Mar 03, 1791

Elections and Offices

Sen. Tristram Dalton [P-MA, 1789-1791] takes office as Senator from Massachusetts

Mar 04, 1789