Henry Rice, former Senator from Minnesota

Dates	Title	Representing
1858-1863	Senator	Minnesota
1855-1857	Representative	Minnesota
1853-1855	Representative	Minnesota

Voting Record

From Jan 1858 to Mar 1863, Rice missed 551 of 1,854 roll call votes, which is 29.7%. This is worse than the median of 20.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1863. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	2	0	0.0%	0^th
1858 Mar-May	71	14	19.7%	43^rd
1858 Jun-Jun	116	44	37.9%	77^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	267	48	18.0%	40^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	3	33.3%	43^rd
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	7	16.3%	46^th
1860 Mar-May	158	26	16.5%	14^th
1860 Jun-Jun	131	36	27.5%	55^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	228	49	21.5%	64^th
1859 Mar-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1860 Jun-Jun	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1861 Jul-Aug	78	22	28.2%	71^st
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	73	8	11.0%	42^nd
1862 Mar-May	146	108	74.0%	92^nd
1862 Jun-Jul	213	113	53.1%	88^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	240	65	27.1%	67^th
1861 Mar-Mar	42	8	19.0%	53^rd

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