Matson was the representative for Indiana’s 5th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1887 to 1889.
He was previously the representative for Indiana’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1885 to 1887; the representative for Indiana’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1883 to 1885; and the representative for Indiana’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1881 to 1883.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1881 to Mar 1889, Matson missed 446 of 1,309 roll call votes, which is 34.1%. This is on par with the median of 32.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1889. 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
