Ezekiel Chambers, former Senator for Maryland

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Chambers was a senator from Maryland and was an Adams. He served from 1831 to 1835.

He was previously a senator from Maryland as an Adams from 1826 to 1831.

Photo of Sen. Ezekiel Chambers [A-MD, 1831-1835]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Feb 1826 to Jan 1835, Chambers missed 364 of 1,289 roll call votes, which is 28.2%. This is much worse than the median of 15.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 1835. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1825-May 1826	98	38	38.8%	83^rd
Dec 1826-Mar 1827	103	17	16.5%	77^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	175	74	42.3%	88^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	63	18	28.6%	81^st
Dec 1829-May 1830	178	35	19.7%	96^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	83	12	14.5%	44^th
1829 Mar-Mar	16	12	75.0%	89^th
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	13	7	53.8%	87^th
1832 Mar-May	81	37	45.7%	94^th
1832 Jun-Jul	191	27	14.1%	82^nd
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	137	31	22.6%	61^st
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	13	1	7.7%	81^st
1834 Mar-May	67	45	67.2%	98^th
1834 Jun-Jun	69	8	11.6%	39^th
1835 Jan-Mar	2	2	100.0%	98^th

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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo

Sen. Ezekiel Chambers

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Missed Votes

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