Chipman was the representative for Vermont’s at-large district and was a Federalist. He served from 1815 to 1817.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1815 to Jan 1817, Chipman missed 43 of 73 roll call votes, which is 58.9%. This is much worse than the median of 16.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1817. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
