Chace was a senator from Rhode Island and was a Republican. He served from 1885 to 1889.
He was previously the representative for Rhode Island’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1883 to 1885; and the representative for Rhode Island’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1881 to 1883.
![Photo of Sen. Jonathan Chace [R-RI, 1885-1889]](/static/legislator-photos/402410-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1885 to Mar 1889, Chace missed 495 of 990 roll call votes, which is 50.0%. This is worse than the median of 32.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1889. 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
