Rep. Gideon Hard

Former Representative for New York’s 33^rd District

Hard was the representative for New York’s 33^rd congressional district and was a Whig. He served from 1835 to 1837.

He was previously the representative for New York’s 33^rd congressional district as an Anti Masonic from 1833 to 1835.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1833 to Mar 1837, Hard missed 276 of 786 roll call votes, which is 35.1%. This is much worse than the median of 21.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1837. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	35	3	8.6%	50^th
1834 Mar-May	92	26	28.3%	72^nd
1834 Jun-Jun	95	47	49.5%	91^st
Dec 1834-Mar 1835	105	27	25.7%	78^th
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	11	19.3%	70^th
1836 Mar-May	150	65	43.3%	83^rd
1836 Jun-Jul	116	38	32.8%	76^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	59	43.4%	85^th

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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