Benjamin Wade, former Senator for Ohio

Wade was a senator from Ohio and was a Republican. He served from 1863 to 1869.

He was previously a senator from Ohio as a Republican from 1857 to 1863; and a senator from Ohio as an Ind. Republican-Democrat from 1851 to 1857.

Photo of Sen. Benjamin Wade [R-OH, 1863-1869]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1851 to Mar 1869, Wade missed 811 of 5,258 roll call votes, which is 15.4%. This is better than the median of 23.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1869. 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 1851-Mar 1852	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1852 Apr-Jul	80	2	2.5%	0^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	1	1.1%	0^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	127	19	15.0%	33^rd
1851 Mar-Mar	3	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	51	3	5.9%	0^th
1854 Apr-Jul	230	41	17.8%	25^th
1854 Aug-Aug	64	6	9.4%	0^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	178	14	7.9%	0^th
1853 Mar-Apr	23	23	100.0%	67^th
1856 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1856 Apr-Jul	133	13	9.8%	14^th
1856 Aug-Aug	124	2	1.6%	0^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	11	7.6%	0^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	11	19.3%	64^th
1858 Mar-May	217	29	13.4%	27^th
1858 Jun-Jun	121	17	14.0%	9^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	269	38	14.1%	18^th
1857 Mar-Mar	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	6	14.0%	36^th
1860 Mar-May	158	19	12.0%	7^th
1860 Jun-Jun	132	15	11.4%	14^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	232	15	6.5%	13^th
1859 Mar-Mar	32	10	31.2%	57^th
1860 Jun-Jun	10	5	50.0%	21^st
1861 Jul-Aug	79	3	3.8%	11^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	73	11	15.1%	71^st
1862 Mar-May	146	9	6.2%	33^rd
1862 Jun-Jul	214	39	18.2%	62^nd
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	247	60	24.3%	76^th
1861 Mar-Mar	42	1	2.4%	6^th
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	69	10	14.5%	47^th
1864 Mar-May	167	68	40.7%	90^th
1864 Jun-Jul	181	49	27.1%	59^th
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	161	52	32.3%	80^th
1863 Mar-Mar	19	1	5.3%	33^rd
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	39	2	5.1%	14^th
1866 Mar-May	102	8	7.8%	21^st
1866 Jun-Jul	137	11	8.0%	7^th
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	217	11	5.1%	2^nd
1865 Mar-Mar	6	2	33.3%	69^th
1867 Mar-Apr	98	11	11.2%	24^th
1867 Jul-Jul	35	1	2.9%	0^th
1867 Nov-Nov	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	55	6	10.9%	20^th
1868 Mar-May	180	96	53.3%	98^th
1868 Jun-Jul	187	21	11.2%	9^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	156	39	25.0%	49^th

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 Wade

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Missed Votes

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