Sen. Harrison Otis

Former Senator from Massachusetts, Federalist

Otis, a Federalist, was a senator from Massachusetts from 1817 to 1823.

He was previously the representative for Massachusetts's 8^th congressional district (1799-1801); and the representative for Massachusetts's 8^th congressional district (1797-1799).

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Voting Record

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From Dec 1817 to May 1822, Otis missed 70 of 314 roll call votes, which is 22.3%. This is worse than the median of 12.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in May 1822. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1817-Apr 1818	67	12	17.9%	68^th
Dec 1818-Mar 1819	65	9	13.8%	48^th
1820 Jan-May	68	13	19.1%	71^st
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	52	7	13.5%	58^th
1822 Jan-May	62	29	46.8%	94^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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

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