Evans was a senator from Maine and was a Whig. He served from 1841 to 1847.
He was previously the representative for Maine’s 4th congressional district as a Whig from 1839 to 1841; the representative for Maine’s 4th congressional district as a Whig from 1837 to 1839; the representative for Maine’s 4th congressional district as a Whig from 1835 to 1837; the representative for Maine’s 4th congressional district as a Whig from 1833 to 1835; the representative for Maine’s 4th congressional district as a Whig from 1831 to 1833; and the representative for Maine’s 4th congressional district as a Whig from 1829 to 1831.
![Photo of Sen. George Evans [W-ME, 1841-1847]](/static/legislator-photos/403925-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1841 to Mar 1847, Evans missed 145 of 1,510 roll call votes, which is 9.6%. This is better than the median of 16.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1847. 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
