Bourne was the representative for Massachusetts’s 3rd congressional district and was (unknown party). He served from 1793 to 1795.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 5th congressional district as (unknown party) from 1791 to 1793.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Nov 1791 to Mar 1795, Bourne missed 40 of 171 roll call votes, which is 23.4%. This is worse than the median of 13.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1795. 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
