Abbott was the representative for Massachusetts’s 4th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1875 to 1877.
![Photo of Rep. Josiah Abbott [D-MA4, 1875-1877]](/static/legislator-photos/400670-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1876 to Mar 1877, Abbott missed 89 of 166 roll call votes, which is 53.6%. This is much worse than the median of 26.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1877. 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
