Dixon was a senator from Rhode Island and was a Whig. He served from 1839 to 1843.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1840 to Jan 1842, Dixon missed 90 of 673 roll call votes, which is 13.4%. This is better than the median of 18.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 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
