Griswold was the representative for Connecticut and was a Federalist. He served from 1805 to 1807.
He was previously the representative for Connecticut as a Federalist from 1803 to 1805; the representative for Connecticut as a Federalist from 1801 to 1803; the representative for Connecticut as a Federalist from 1799 to 1801; and the representative for Connecticut as a Federalist from 1795 to 1799.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1796 to Mar 1805, Griswold missed 48 of 608 roll call votes, which is 7.9%. This is better than the median of 17.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1805. 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
