Benjamin Harrison, former President

Dates	Title	Representing
1889-1893	President
1881-1887	Senator	Indiana

Voting Record

From Mar 1881 to Mar 1887, Harrison missed 385 of 1,647 roll call votes, which is 23.4%. This is better than the median of 28.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1887. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	94	12	12.8%	27^th
1882 Apr-Jul	204	56	27.5%	47^th
1882 Aug-Aug	36	3	8.3%	26^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	390	74	19.0%	20^th
1881 Mar-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1881 Oct-Oct	59	5	8.5%	18^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	62	9	14.5%	24^th
1884 Mar-May	110	26	23.6%	35^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	10	12.8%	18^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	163	21	12.9%	11^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	58	17	29.3%	61^st
1886 Apr-Jul	221	72	32.6%	56^th
1886 Aug-Aug	11	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	139	78	56.1%	83^rd
1885 Mar-Apr	9	2	22.2%	56^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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