Rantoul was the representative for Massachusetts’s 2nd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1851 to 1853.
He was previously a senator from Massachusetts as a Democrat from 1851 to 1851.
![Photo of Sen. Robert Rantoul [D-MA, 1851-1851]](/static/legislator-photos/409043-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1851 to Aug 1852, Rantoul missed 136 of 281 roll call votes, which is 48.4%. This is much worse than the median of 27.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Aug 1852. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
