Henry Payne, former Senator from Ohio

Dates	Title	Representing
1885-1891	Senator	Ohio
1875-1877	Representative	Ohio's 20^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1885 to Mar 1891, Payne missed 497 of 1,323 roll call votes, which is 37.6%. This is worse than the median of 31.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1891. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	62	9	14.5%	25^th
1886 Apr-Jul	227	59	26.0%	52^nd
1886 Aug-Aug	12	4	33.3%	58^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	141	32	22.7%	54^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	47	12	25.5%	37^th
1888 Mar-May	58	20	34.5%	52^nd
1888 Jun-Aug	60	17	28.3%	34^th
1888 Sep-Oct	13	2	15.4%	31^st
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	190	73	38.4%	54^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	30	22	73.3%	88^th
1890 Mar-May	109	29	26.6%	34^th
1890 Jun-Aug	145	62	42.8%	53^rd
1890 Sep-Sep	77	77	100.0%	92^nd
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	135	77	57.0%	78^th
1889 Mar-Apr	8	2	25.0%	49^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