Burnell was the representative for Massachusetts’s 10th congressional district and was a Whig. He served from 1843 to 1845.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 11th congressional district as a Whig from 1841 to 1843.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From May 1841 to Feb 1845, Burnell missed 387 of 975 roll call votes, which is 39.7%. This is much worse than the median of 23.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1845. 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
