Kent was a senator from Maryland and was a Whig. He served from 1833 to 1837.
He was previously the representative for Maryland’s 2nd congressional district as an Adams from 1825 to 1827; the representative for Maryland’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1823 to 1825; the representative for Maryland’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1821 to 1823; the representative for Maryland’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1819 to 1821; and the representative for Maryland’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1811 to 1815.
![Photo of Sen. Joseph Kent [W-MD, 1833-1837]](/static/legislator-photos/406291-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1833 to Oct 1837, Kent missed 134 of 704 roll call votes, which is 19.0%. This is on par with the median of 19.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1837. 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
