Davis was a senator from Massachusetts and was a Whig. He served from 1847 to 1853.
He was previously a senator from Massachusetts as a Whig from 1845 to 1847; a senator from Massachusetts as a Whig from 1835 to 1841; the representative for Massachusetts’s 5th congressional district as a Whig from 1833 to 1835; the representative for Massachusetts’s 5th congressional district as a Whig from 1831 to 1833; the representative for Massachusetts’s 5th congressional district as a Whig from 1829 to 1831; the representative for Massachusetts’s 5th congressional district as an Adams from 1827 to 1829; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 5th congressional district as an Adams from 1825 to 1827.
![Photo of Sen. John Davis [W-MA, 1847-1853]](/static/legislator-photos/403250-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1835 to Mar 1853, Davis missed 601 of 2,684 roll call votes, which is 22.4%. This is on par with the median of 22.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1853. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
