Rep. Joseph Dane

Former Representative for Maine’s 1^st District

Dane was the representative for Maine’s 1^st congressional district and was a Federalist. He served from 1821 to 1823.

He was previously the representative for Maine as (unknown party) from Dec 6, 1819 to Mar 3, 1821.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1820 to Mar 1823, Dane missed 9 of 152 roll call votes, which is 5.9%. This is better than the median of 13.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1823. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	57	1	1.8%	13^th
Dec 1821-May 1822	71	6	8.5%	35^th
1823 Jan-Mar	24	2	8.3%	23^rd

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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