Gilman was a senator from New Hampshire and was a Republican. He served from 1811 to 1815.
He was previously a senator from New Hampshire as a Republican from 1805 to 1811; the representative for New Hampshire as a Federalist from 1795 to 1797; the representative for New Hampshire as a Democratic Republican from 1793 to 1795; the representative for New Hampshire as a Democratic Republican from 1791 to 1793; and the representative for New Hampshire as a Democratic Republican from 1789 to 1791.
![Photo of Sen. Nicholas Gilman [R-NH, 1811-1815]](/static/legislator-photos/404577-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1805 to Dec 1814, Gilman missed 47 of 702 roll call votes, which is 6.7%. This is better than the median of 14.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1814. 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
