Appleton was the representative for Massachusetts’s 1st congressional district and was a Whig. He served from 1841 to 1843.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 1st congressional district as an Anti Jacksonian from 1831 to 1833.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1831 to Aug 1842, Appleton missed 183 of 693 roll call votes, which is 26.4%. This is on par with the median of 26.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Aug 1842. 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
