Rep. Elijah Brigham
Former Representative for Massachusetts’s 11th District
Brigham was the representative for Massachusetts’s 11th congressional district and was a Federalist. He served from 1815 to 1817.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 10th congressional district as a Federalist from 1811 to 1815.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Nov 1811 to Feb 1816, Brigham missed 78 of 695 roll call votes, which is 11.2%. This is better than the median of 16.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1816. 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
