Dorsey was the representative for Maryland’s 1st congressional district and was (unknown party). He served from 1829 to 1831.
He was previously the representative for Maryland’s 1st congressional district as an Adams from 1827 to 1829; and the representative for Maryland’s 1st congressional district as an Adams from 1825 to 1827.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1826 to Mar 1831, Dorsey missed 268 of 617 roll call votes, which is 43.4%. This is much worse than the median of 14.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1831. 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
