Rep. Benjamin Bourne
Former Representative for Rhode Island
Bourne was the representative for Rhode Island and was a Federalist. He served from 1795 to 1797.
He was previously the representative for Rhode Island as a Federalist from 1793 to 1795; the representative for Rhode Island’s 1st congressional district as a Federalist from 1791 to 1793; and the representative for Rhode Island’s 1st congressional district as a Federalist from 1789 to 1791.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From May 1789 to Dec 1796, Bourne missed 107 of 325 roll call votes, which is 32.9%. This is much worse than the median of 15.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1796. 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
