McKean was a senator from Pennsylvania and was a Democrat. He served from 1833 to 1839.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 9th congressional district as a Jackson from 1827 to 1829; the representative for Pennsylvania’s 9th congressional district as a Jackson from 1825 to 1827; and the representative for Pennsylvania’s 9th congressional district as a Jacksonian from 1823 to 1825.
![Photo of Sen. Samuel McKean [D-PA, 1833-1839]](/static/legislator-photos/407487-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1833 to Mar 1839, McKean missed 524 of 1,071 roll call votes, which is 48.9%. This is much worse than the median of 19.0% among the lifetime records of senators 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
