Frelinghuysen was a senator from New Jersey and was an Anti-Jacksonian. He served from 1829 to 1835.
![Photo of Sen. Theodore Frelinghuysen [A-NJ, 1829-1835]](/static/legislator-photos/404318-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1829 to Mar 1835, Frelinghuysen missed 90 of 928 roll call votes, which is 9.7%. This is better than the median of 15.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1835. 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
