Sen. George Hearst
Former Senator for California
Hearst was a senator from California and was a Democrat. He served from 1887 to 1891.
He was previously a senator from California as a Democrat from 1886 to 1887.
![Photo of Sen. George Hearst [D-CA, 1887-1891]](/static/legislator-photos/405294-200px.jpeg)
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Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Apr 1886 to Feb 1891, Hearst missed 831 of 1,125 roll call votes, which is 73.9%. This is much worse than the median of 35.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Feb 1891. 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
