Hayden was a senator from Arizona and was a Democrat. He served from 1927 to 1968.
He was previously the representative for Arizona’s at-large district as a Democrat from 1925 to 1927; the representative for Arizona’s at-large district as a Democrat from 1923 to 1925; the representative for Arizona’s at-large district as a Democrat from 1915 to 1923; and the representative for Arizona’s at-large district as a Democrat from 1911 to 1915.
![Photo of Sen. Carl Hayden [D-AZ, 1927-1968]](/static/legislator-photos/405253-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1927 to Oct 1968, Hayden missed 997 of 6,712 roll call votes, which is 14.9%. This is on par with the median of 13.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1968. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
