Maxwell was the representative for New Jersey and was a Whig. He served from 1841 to 1843.
He was previously the representative for New Jersey as a Whig from 1837 to 1839.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Sep 1837 to Mar 1843, Maxwell missed 186 of 1,449 roll call votes, which is 12.8%. This is better than the median of 26.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1843. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
