Venable was a senator from Virginia and was a Republican. He served from 1803 to 1805.
He was previously the representative for Virginia’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1795 to 1799; the representative for Virginia’s 7th congressional district as a Democratic Republican from 1793 to 1795; and the representative for Virginia’s 6th congressional district as a Democratic Republican from 1791 to 1793.
![Photo of Sen. Abraham Venable [R-VA, 1803-1805]](/static/legislator-photos/411139-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Oct 1803 to Mar 1804, Venable missed 1 of 21 roll call votes, which is 4.8%. This is better than the median of 10.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1804. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
