Rep. William Lyman
Former Representative for Massachusetts’s 2nd District
Lyman was the representative for Massachusetts’s 2nd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1795 to 1797.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from Dec 2, 1793 to Mar 3, 1795.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1794 to Mar 1797, Lyman missed 14 of 152 roll call votes, which is 9.2%. This is better than the median of 15.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1797. 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