Jackson was the representative for Massachusetts’s 9th congressional district and was an Anti Masonic. He served from 1835 to 1837.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 9th congressional district as an Anti Masonic from 1833 to 1835.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1833 to Mar 1837, Jackson missed 242 of 786 roll call votes, which is 30.8%. This is worse than the median of 21.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1837. 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
