Rep. Daniel Hiester
Former Representative for Maryland’s 4th District
Hiester was the representative for Maryland’s 4th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1803 to 1805.
He was previously the representative for Maryland’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 1801 to 1803; the representative for Pennsylvania’s 5th congressional district as a Republican from 1795 to 1797; the representative for Pennsylvania as a Republican from 1793 to 1795; the representative for Pennsylvania’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 1791 to 1793; and the representative for Pennsylvania as a Republican from 1789 to 1791.
Legislators who enslaved Black people
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From May 1789 to Mar 1804, Hiester missed 157 of 531 roll call votes, which is 29.6%. This is worse than the median of 17.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1804. 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
