Rep. Fernando Beaman
Former Representative for Michigan’s 1st District
Beaman was the representative for Michigan’s 1st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1865 to 1871.
He was previously the representative for Michigan’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1863 to 1865; and the representative for Michigan’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1861 to 1863.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jul 1861 to Mar 1871, Beaman missed 591 of 3,202 roll call votes, which is 18.5%. This is better than the median of 25.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1871. 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
