Sen. Prentiss Mellen
Former Senator for Massachusetts
Mellen was a senator from Massachusetts and was a Federalist. He served from 1818 to 1821.
![Photo of Sen. Prentiss Mellen [F-MA, 1818-1821]](/static/legislator-photos/407623-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1818 to May 1820, Mellen missed 16 of 133 roll call votes, which is 12.0%. This is on par with the median of 12.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in May 1820. 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
