Rep. Henry Dwight
Former Representative for Massachusetts’s 9th District
Dwight was the representative for Massachusetts’s 9th congressional district and was (unknown party). He served from 1829 to 1831.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 9th congressional district as an Adams from 1827 to 1829; the representative for Massachusetts’s 9th congressional district as an Adams from 1825 to 1827; the representative for Massachusetts’s 9th congressional district as (unknown party) from 1823 to 1825; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district as a Federalist from 1821 to 1823.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1821 to Mar 1831, Dwight missed 173 of 806 roll call votes, which is 21.5%. This is worse than the median of 14.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1831. 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
