Betts was a senator from Connecticut and was a Whig. He served from 1839 to 1841.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1840 to Jul 1840, Betts missed 28 of 72 roll call votes, which is 38.9%. This is much worse than the median of 22.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 1840. 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
