Sen. Obadiah Gardner

Former Senator from Maine

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1911-1913	Senator	Maine

Voting Record

From Jan 1912 to Mar 1913, Gardner missed 158 of 286 roll call votes, which is 55.2%. This is worse than the median of 26.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1913. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	31	3	9.7%	29^th
1912 Apr-Jul	98	48	49.0%	76^th
1912 Aug-Aug	48	48	100.0%	89^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	109	59	54.1%	84^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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Obadiah Gardner [D-ME, 1911-1913] leaves office as Senator from Maine

Mar 03, 1913

Elections and Offices

Sen. Obadiah Gardner [D-ME, 1911-1913] takes office as Senator from Maine

Apr 04, 1911