Rep. Charles Benedict
Former Representative for New York’s 31st District
Benedict was the representative for New York’s 31st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1877 to 1879.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Oct 1877 to Mar 1879, Benedict missed 171 of 377 roll call votes, which is 45.4%. This is much worse than the median of 22.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1879. 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
