Flanders was the representative for Louisiana’s 1st congressional district and was an Unionist. He served from 1861 to 1863.
![Photo of Rep. Benjamin Flanders [U-LA1, 1861-1863]](/static/legislator-photos/404144-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1862 to Mar 1863, Flanders missed 31 of 81 roll call votes, which is 38.3%. This is worse than the median of 27.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1863. 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
