Rep. Richard Jackson Jr.

Former Representative from Rhode Island, Federalist

Jackson, a Federalist, was the representative for Rhode Island from 1811 to 1815.

He was previously the representative for Rhode Island (1807-1811).

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Voting Record

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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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Nov 1808-Mar 1809	115	20	17.4%	56^th
1809 May-Jun	36	12	33.3%	84^th
Dec 1809-Jan 1810	29	2	6.9%	29^th
1810 Feb-Apr	121	29	24.0%	66^th
1810 May-May	3	1	33.3%	62^nd
Dec 1810-Mar 1811	104	17	16.3%	38^th
Nov 1811-Feb 1812	82	11	13.4%	57^th
1812 Mar-Jun	128	15	11.7%	37^th
1812 Jul-Jul	14	14	100.0%	84^th
Nov 1812-Mar 1813	90	7	7.8%	21^st
1813 May-Aug	72	8	11.1%	39^th
Dec 1813-Apr 1814	110	16	14.5%	38^th
1814 Sep-Nov	54	9	16.7%	49^th
Dec 1814-Feb 1815	106	16	15.1%	53^rd
1815 Mar-Mar	10	5	50.0%	63^rd

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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

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