Dickinson was the representative for New York’s 9th congressional district and was (unknown party). He served from 1829 to 1831.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 9th congressional district as an Adams from 1827 to 1829; the representative for New York’s 10th congressional district as a Federalist from 1821 to 1823; and the representative for New York’s 10th congressional district as a Federalist from 1819 to 1821.
![Photo of Rep. John Dickinson [?-NY9, 1829-1831]](/static/legislator-photos/403442-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1819 to Mar 1831, Dickinson missed 170 of 748 roll call votes, which is 22.7%. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
