Sen. Nathan Dixon
Former Senator for Rhode Island
Dixon was a senator from Rhode Island and was a Republican. He served from 1889 to 1895.
He was previously the representative for Rhode Island’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1883 to 1885.
![Photo of Sen. Nathan Dixon [R-RI, 1889-1895]](/static/legislator-photos/403493-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1889 to Mar 1895, Dixon missed 569 of 1,287 roll call votes, which is 44.2%. This is worse than the median of 34.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1895. 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
