Sen. James Hillhouse
Former Senator for Connecticut
Hillhouse was a senator from Connecticut and was a Federalist. He served from 1796 to 1810.
He was previously the representative for Connecticut as a Federalist from Dec. 7, 1795 to May 18, 1796; the representative for Connecticut as (unknown party) from Dec. 2, 1793 to March 3, 1795; and the representative for Connecticut as (unknown party) from Oct. 24, 1791 to March 3, 1793.
![Photo of Sen. James Hillhouse [F-CT, 1796-1810]](/static/legislator-photos/405477-200px.jpeg)
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Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Nov 1791 to May 1810, Hillhouse missed 75 of 873 roll call votes, which is 8.6%. This is better than the median of 12.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in May 1810. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absences, 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
