Ellsworth was the representative for Connecticut and was (unknown party). He served from 1833 to 1835.
He was previously the representative for Connecticut as (unknown party) from 1831 to 1833; and the representative for Connecticut as (unknown party) from 1829 to 1831.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1829 to Jun 1834, Ellsworth missed 223 of 957 roll call votes, which is 23.3%. This is worse than the median of 18.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1834. 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
