Rep. Benjamin Contee
Former Representative for Maryland’s 3rd District
Contee was the representative for Maryland’s 3rd congressional district and was (unknown party). He served from 1789 to 1791.
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Voting Record
Missed Votes
From May 1789 to Mar 1791, Contee missed 17 of 109 roll call votes, which is 15.6%. This is worse than the median of 10.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1791. 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
