Eugene Hale, former Senator for Maine

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Hale was a senator from Maine and was a Republican. He served from 1905 to 1911.

He was previously a senator from Maine as a Republican from 1899 to 1905; a senator from Maine as a Republican from 1893 to 1899; a senator from Maine as a Republican from 1887 to 1893; a senator from Maine as a Republican from 1881 to 1887; the representative for Maine’s 5^th congressional district as a Republican from 1877 to 1879; the representative for Maine’s 5^th congressional district as a Republican from 1875 to 1877; the representative for Maine’s 5^th congressional district as a Republican from 1873 to 1875; and the representative for Maine’s 5^th congressional district as a Republican from 1869 to 1873.

Photo of Sen. Eugene Hale [R-ME, 1905-1911]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1881 to Mar 1911, Hale missed 2,259 of 4,992 roll call votes, which is 45.3%. This is much worse than the median of 26.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1911. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	96	42	43.8%	67^th
1882 Apr-Jul	212	102	48.1%	67^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	13	34.2%	33^rd
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	401	190	47.4%	67^th
1881 Mar-Mar	178	72	40.4%	50^th
1881 Oct-Oct	61	52	85.2%	0^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	29	44.6%	50^th
1884 Mar-May	114	76	66.7%	75^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	50	64.1%	75^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	171	79	46.2%	75^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	35	55.6%	75^th
1886 Apr-Jul	234	95	40.6%	50^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	8	66.7%	25^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	143	67	46.9%	75^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	5	55.6%	50^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	50	25	50.0%	40^th
1888 Mar-May	64	45	70.3%	80^th
1888 Jun-Aug	62	41	66.1%	60^th
1888 Sep-Oct	14	14	100.0%	80^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	199	117	58.8%	80^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	31	8	25.8%	40^th
1890 Mar-May	114	70	61.4%	80^th
1890 Jun-Aug	150	51	34.0%	50^th
1890 Sep-Sep	79	19	24.1%	60^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	41	28.7%	33^rd
1889 Mar-Apr	9	3	33.3%	40^th
1892 Jan-Mar	26	13	50.0%	57^th
1892 Apr-Jul	78	22	28.2%	29^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	105	64	61.0%	57^th
1893 Aug-Oct	77	36	46.8%	88^th
1894 Jan-Mar	35	14	40.0%	56^th
1894 Apr-Jul	321	130	40.5%	67^th
1894 Aug-Aug	21	13	61.9%	67^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	101	33	32.7%	45^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	6	100.0%	43^rd
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	36	8	22.2%	39^th
1896 Mar-May	66	37	56.1%	78^th
1896 Jun-Jun	24	2	8.3%	0^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	71	48	67.6%	89^th
1897 Mar-Jul	200	82	41.0%	57^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	26	6	23.1%	50^th
1898 Mar-May	51	16	31.4%	45^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	15	28.3%	68^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	51	33	64.7%	86^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	8	40.0%	83^rd
1900 Mar-May	57	21	36.8%	40^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	4	33.3%	55^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	80	32	40.0%	69^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	17	65.4%	86^th
1902 Mar-May	49	12	24.5%	57^th
1902 Jun-Jun	23	7	30.4%	73^rd
1903 Jan-Mar	18	11	61.1%	76^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	65^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	15	41.7%	50^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	23	41.1%	80^th
1906 Jan-Feb	8	1	12.5%	53^rd
1906 Mar-May	49	16	32.7%	79^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	12	38.7%	49^th
1907 Jan-Mar	38	6	15.8%	23^rd
1908 Mar-May	49	22	44.9%	60^th
1909 Jan-Mar	35	14	40.0%	74^th
1909 Apr-Aug	130	45	34.6%	76^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	7	100.0%	92^nd
1910 Mar-May	36	17	47.2%	77^th
1910 Jun-Jun	41	21	51.2%	72^nd
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	52	20	38.5%	71^st

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. Eugene Hale

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