Rep. John Dennis

Former Representative from Maryland’s 8^th District, Federalist

Dennis, a Federalist, was the representative for Maryland's 8^th congressional district from 1803 to 1805.

He was previously the representative for Maryland's 8^th congressional district (1801-1803); the representative for Maryland's 8^th congressional district (1799-1801); and the representative for Maryland's 8^th congressional district (1797-1799).

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Voting Record

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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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1797 Jun-Jul	34	0	0.0%	0^th
Nov 1797-Feb 1798	19	10	52.6%	91^st
1798 Mar-Jun	42	8	19.0%	67^th
1798 Jul-Jul	16	15	93.8%	79^th
Dec 1798-Mar 1799	44	1	2.3%	15^th
Dec 1799-May 1800	54	11	20.4%	84^th
Nov 1800-Mar 1801	42	1	2.4%	23^rd
Dec 1801-May 1802	94	29	30.9%	78^th
Dec 1802-Mar 1803	48	26	54.2%	92^nd
Oct 1803-Mar 1804	97	67	69.1%	93^rd
Nov 1804-Mar 1805	35	17	48.6%	84^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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

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