Lincoln was President of the United States and was a Republican. He served from 1861 to 1865.
He was previously the representative for Illinois’s 7th congressional district as a Whig from 1847 to 1849.
![Photo of President Abraham Lincoln [R, 1861-1865]](/static/legislator-photos/406807-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1847 to Mar 1849, Lincoln missed 19 of 478 roll call votes, which is 4.0%. This is better than the median of 24.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1849. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- 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
