Cushman was the representative for New Hampshire and was a Democrat. He served from 1837 to 1839.
He was previously the representative for New Hampshire as a Jackson from 1835 to 1837.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1835 to Mar 1839, Cushman missed 27 of 934 roll call votes, which is 2.9%. This is better than the median of 23.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1839. 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
