Jackson was the representative for Rhode Island and was a Federalist. He served from 1811 to 1815.
He was previously the representative for Rhode Island as a Federalist from 1807 to 1811.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Nov 1808 to Mar 1815, Jackson missed 182 of 1,074 roll call votes, which is 16.9%. This is on par with the median of 18.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1815. 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
