Robbins was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 5th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1875 to 1877.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1853 to 1855; the representative for Pennsylvania’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1851 to 1853; and the representative for Pennsylvania’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1849 to 1851.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1849 to Mar 1877, Robbins missed 300 of 1,962 roll call votes, which is 15.3%. This is better than the median of 26.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1877. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
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