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 5th congressional district as a Republican from 1877 to 1879; the representative for Maine’s 5th congressional district as a Republican from 1875 to 1877; the representative for Maine’s 5th congressional district as a Republican from 1873 to 1875; and the representative for Maine’s 5th congressional district as a Republican from 1869 to 1873.
![Photo of Sen. Eugene Hale [R-ME, 1905-1911]](/static/legislator-photos/404914-200px.jpeg)
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.
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