Brenton was the representative for Indiana’s 10th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1857 to 1859.
He was previously the representative for Indiana’s 10th congressional district as an Ind. Republican-Democrat from 1855 to 1857; and the representative for Indiana’s 10th congressional district as a Whig from 1851 to 1853.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1851 to Mar 1857, Brenton missed 143 of 1,184 roll call votes, which is 12.1%. This is better than the median of 25.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1857. 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
