Rollins was a senator from New Hampshire and was a Republican. He served from 1877 to 1883.
He was previously the representative for New Hampshire’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1865 to 1867; the representative for New Hampshire’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1863 to 1865; and the representative for New Hampshire’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1861 to 1863.
![Photo of Sen. Edward Rollins [R-NH, 1877-1883]](/static/legislator-photos/409377-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1877 to Mar 1883, Rollins missed 325 of 2,140 roll call votes, which is 15.2%. This is better than the median of 30.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1883. 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
