Dennis was the representative for Maryland’s 8th congressional district as a Federalist. He served from 1803 to 1805.
He was previously the representative for Maryland’s 8th congressional district as a Federalist from 1801 to 1803; the representative for Maryland’s 8th congressional district as a Federalist from 1799 to 1801; and the representative for Maryland’s 8th congressional district as a Federalist from 1797 to 1799.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jun 1797 to Mar 1805, Dennis missed 185 of 525 roll call votes, which is 35.2%. This is much worse than the median of 17.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1805. 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
