Martindale was the representative for New York’s 12th congressional district and was an Anti Masonic. He served from 1833 to 1835.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 18th congressional district as an Anti Mason from 1829 to 1831; the representative for New York’s 18th congressional district as an Adams from 1827 to 1829; the representative for New York’s 18th congressional district as an Adams from 1825 to 1827; and the representative for New York’s 18th congressional district as an Anti Mason from 1823 to 1825.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1823 to Mar 1835, Martindale missed 56 of 1,038 roll call votes, which is 5.4%. This is better than the median of 18.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 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.
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
