Lacock was a senator from Pennsylvania and was a Republican. He served from 1813 to 1819.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 11th congressional district as a Republican from 1811 to 1813.
![Photo of Sen. Abner Lacock [R-PA, 1813-1819]](/static/legislator-photos/406521-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jun 1813 to Mar 1819, Lacock missed 53 of 584 roll call votes, which is 9.1%. This is better than the median of 14.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1819. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- 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
