Rep. Charles Addison Russell
Former Representative for Connecticut’s 3rd District
Russell was the representative for Connecticut’s 3rd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1901 to 1903.
He was previously the representative for Connecticut’s 3rd congressional district as a Republican from Dec 4, 1899 to Mar 3, 1901; the representative for Connecticut’s 3rd congressional district as a Republican from Dec 2, 1895 to Mar 3, 1899; the representative for Connecticut’s 3rd congressional district as a Republican from Aug 7, 1893 to Mar 3, 1895; the representative for Connecticut’s 3rd congressional district as a Republican from Dec 7, 1891 to Mar 3, 1893; the representative for Connecticut’s 3rd congressional district as a Republican from Dec 2, 1889 to Mar 3, 1891; and the representative for Connecticut’s 3rd congressional district as a Republican from Dec 5, 1887 to Mar 3, 1889.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1887 to Jul 1902, Russell missed 944 of 2,147 roll call votes, which is 44.0%. This is worse than the median of 31.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jul 1902. 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