Sen. Benjamin Harding

Former Senator for Oregon

Harding was a senator from Oregon and was a Democrat. He served from 1862 to 1865.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Benjamin Harding [D-OR, 1862-1865]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1862 to Mar 1865, Harding missed 497 of 844 roll call votes, which is 58.9%. This is much worse than the median of 18.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1865. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	247	66	26.7%	75^th
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	69	8	11.6%	37^th
1864 Mar-May	167	84	50.3%	88^th
1864 Jun-Jul	181	181	100.0%	96^th
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	161	157	97.5%	96^th
1863 Mar-Mar	19	1	5.3%	31^st

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

Sen. Benjamin Harding

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources