Truman Smith, former Senator from Connecticut

Dates	Title	Representing
1849-1855	Senator	Connecticut
1847-1849	Representative	Connecticut's 4^th District
1845-1847	Representative	Connecticut's 4^th District
1839-1843	Representative	Connecticut's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1849 to Dec 1854, Smith missed 156 of 992 roll call votes, which is 15.7%. This is better than the median of 25.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1854. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	22	5	22.7%	68^th
1850 Mar-May	64	10	15.6%	52^nd
1850 Jun-Aug	154	13	8.4%	23^rd
1850 Sep-Sep	108	6	5.6%	6^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	141	11	7.8%	22^nd
1849 Mar-Mar	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	38	4	10.5%	14^th
1852 Apr-Jul	80	7	8.8%	9^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	13	14.3%	9^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	124	12	9.7%	13^th
1851 Mar-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	50	28	56.0%	82^nd
1854 Apr-Jul	65	41	63.1%	91^st
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1853 Mar-Apr	22	6	27.3%	47^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