Mason was the representative for Massachusetts’s 1st congressional district and was a Federalist. He served from 1819 to 1821.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 1st congressional district as a Federalist from 1817 to 1819; and a senator from Massachusetts as a Federalist from 1800 to 1803.
![Photo of Rep. Jonathan Mason [F-MA1, 1819-1821]](/static/legislator-photos/407239-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1817 to May 1820, Mason missed 26 of 193 roll call votes, which is 13.5%. This is on par with the median of 14.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in May 1820. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
