Briggs was the representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district and was a Whig. He served from 1839 to 1843.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district as a Whig from 1837 to 1839; the representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district as a Whig from 1835 to 1837; the representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district as a Whig from 1833 to 1835; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 9th congressional district as a Whig from 1831 to 1833.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1831 to Mar 1843, Briggs missed 697 of 3,448 roll call votes, which is 20.2%. This is better than the median of 26.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1843. 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
