Thomas Henderson, former Representative from Illinois's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1893-1895	Representative	Illinois's 7^th District
1891-1893	Representative	Illinois's 7^th District
1889-1891	Representative	Illinois's 7^th District
1887-1889	Representative	Illinois's 7^th District
1885-1887	Representative	Illinois's 7^th District
1883-1885	Representative	Illinois's 7^th District
1881-1883	Representative	Illinois's 6^th District
1877-1881	Representative	Illinois's 6^th District
1875-1877	Representative	Illinois's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1875 to Mar 1895, Henderson missed 1,362 of 3,647 roll call votes, which is 37.3%. This is worse than the median of 36.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1895. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	59	7	11.9%	42^nd
1876 Apr-Jul	106	27	25.5%	42^nd
1876 Aug-Aug	37	6	16.2%	26^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	123	13	10.6%	16^th
1877 Oct-Dec	34	2	5.9%	38^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	56	8	14.3%	48^th
1878 Mar-May	100	15	15.0%	29^th
1878 Jun-Jun	64	10	15.6%	43^rd
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	116	19	16.4%	38^th
1879 Mar-Jul	135	38	28.1%	52^nd
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	34	5	14.7%	37^th
1880 Mar-May	115	63	54.8%	89^th
1880 Jun-Jun	32	13	40.6%	56^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	119	65	54.6%	96^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	75	21	28.0%	60^th
1882 Apr-Jul	166	46	27.7%	26^th
1882 Aug-Aug	7	4	57.1%	65^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	99	43	43.4%	86^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	33	12	36.4%	77^th
1884 Mar-May	70	15	21.4%	41^st
1884 Jun-Jul	80	45	56.3%	76^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	145	42	29.0%	48^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	35	10	28.6%	71^st
1886 Apr-Jul	152	56	36.8%	77^th
1886 Aug-Aug	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	103	41	39.8%	88^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	38	11	28.9%	67^th
1888 Mar-May	105	18	17.1%	18^th
1888 Jun-Aug	47	16	34.0%	35^th
1888 Sep-Oct	16	8	50.0%	40^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	113	28	24.8%	41^st
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	70	12	17.1%	30^th
1890 Mar-May	109	22	20.2%	27^th
1890 Jun-Aug	168	62	36.9%	47^th
1890 Sep-Sep	53	10	18.9%	18^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	124	71.7%	97^th
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	50	33	66.0%	97^th
1892 Apr-Jul	157	76	48.4%	66^th
1892 Aug-Aug	4	1	25.0%	43^rd
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	79	55	69.6%	95^th
1893 Aug-Nov	64	50	78.1%	97^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	105	78.9%	82^nd
1894 Apr-Jul	99	66	66.7%	78^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	19	95.0%	93^rd
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	20	41.7%	79^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