Sen. Charles Gordon Atherton
Former Senator for New Hampshire
Atherton was a senator from New Hampshire and was a Democrat. He served from 1853 to 1853.
He was previously a senator from New Hampshire as a Democrat from 1843 to 1849; the representative for New Hampshire as a Democrat from 1839 to 1843; and the representative for New Hampshire as a Democrat from 1837 to 1839.
![Photo of Sen. Charles Gordon Atherton [D-NH, 1853-1853]](/static/legislator-photos/400971-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1844 to Apr 1853, Atherton missed 116 of 1,055 roll call votes, which is 11.0%. This is better than the median of 25.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Apr 1853. 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
