Lambert was a senator from New Jersey and was a Republican. He served from 1809 to 1815.
He was previously the representative for New Jersey as a Republican from 1807 to 1809; and the representative for New Jersey as a Republican from 1805 to 1807.
![Photo of Sen. John Lambert [R-NJ, 1809-1815]](/static/legislator-photos/406546-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1809 to Mar 1815, Lambert missed 42 of 634 roll call votes, which is 6.6%. This is better than the median of 14.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1815. 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