Rep. Samuel Lyman
Former Representative for Massachusetts’s 3rd District
Lyman was the representative for Massachusetts’s 3rd congressional district and was a Federalist. He served from 1799 to 1801.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 3rd congressional district as a Federalist from 1795 to 1799.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1796 to May 1800, Lyman missed 13 of 292 roll call votes, which is 4.5%. This is better than the median of 12.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in May 1800. 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
