Ellsworth was a senator from Connecticut and was a Federalist. He served from 1791 to 1797.
He was previously a senator from Connecticut as a Pro-Administration from 1789 to 1791.
![Photo of Sen. Oliver Ellsworth [F-CT, 1791-1797]](/static/legislator-photos/403838-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jul 1789 to Mar 1796, Ellsworth missed 4 of 258 roll call votes, which is 1.6%. This is better than the median of 8.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1796. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
