Otis was a senator from Massachusetts and was a Federalist. He served from 1817 to 1823.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 8th congressional district as a Federalist from 1799 to 1801; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 8th congressional district as a Federalist from 1797 to 1799.
![Photo of Sen. Harrison Otis [F-MA, 1817-1823]](/data/photos/408380-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
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.
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
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