Rep. Benjamin Howard
Former Representative for Kentucky’s 5th District
Howard was the representative for Kentucky’s 5th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1807 to 1811.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Oct 1807 to May 1810, Howard missed 81 of 424 roll call votes, which is 19.1%. This is on par with the median of 19.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in May 1810. 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
