Fairfield was a senator from Maine and was a Democrat. He served from 1845 to 1847.
He was previously a senator from Maine as a Democrat from 1843 to 1845; the representative for Maine’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1837 to 1839; and the representative for Maine’s 1st congressional district as a Jackson from 1835 to 1837.
![Photo of Sen. John Fairfield [D-ME, 1845-1847]](/static/legislator-photos/403969-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1844 to Apr 1848, Fairfield missed 82 of 690 roll call votes, which is 11.9%. This is better than the median of 19.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Apr 1848. 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
