Hannibal Hamlin, former Senator for Maine

Hamlin was a senator from Maine and was a Republican. He served from 1875 to 1881.

He was previously a senator from Maine as a Republican from 1869 to 1875; Vice President of the United States (and President of the Senate) as a Republican from 1861 to 1865; a senator from Maine as a Republican from 1857 to 1861; a senator from Maine as a Democrat from 1851 to 1857; a senator from Maine as a Democrat from 1848 to 1851; the representative for Maine’s 6^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1845 to 1847; and the representative for Maine’s 6^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1843 to 1845.

Photo of Sen. Hannibal Hamlin [R-ME, 1875-1881]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Apr 1848 to Mar 1881, Hamlin missed 2,656 of 6,599 roll call votes, which is 40.2%. This is worse than the median of 29.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1881. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1848 Apr-Jul	81	5	6.2%	0^th
1848 Aug-Aug	66	12	18.2%	0^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	80	23	28.7%	0^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	22	3	13.6%	0^th
1850 Mar-May	64	23	35.9%	0^th
1850 Jun-Aug	154	31	20.1%	0^th
1850 Sep-Sep	108	15	13.9%	0^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	141	20	14.2%	0^th
1849 Mar-Mar	10	3	30.0%	0^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	38	6	15.8%	0^th
1852 Apr-Jul	80	21	26.2%	0^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	24	26.4%	0^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	127	25	19.7%	0^th
1851 Mar-Mar	22	19	86.4%	0^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	51	5	9.8%	0^th
1854 Apr-Jul	230	112	48.7%	0^th
1854 Aug-Aug	64	64	100.0%	0^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	178	124	69.7%	0^th
1853 Mar-Apr	23	5	21.7%	0^th
1856 Jan-Mar	32	10	31.2%	0^th
1856 Apr-Jul	133	91	68.4%	0^th
1856 Aug-Aug	124	123	99.2%	0^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	16	100.0%	0^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	6	4	66.7%	0^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	8	14.0%	50^th
1858 Mar-May	217	58	26.7%	50^th
1858 Jun-Jun	121	40	33.1%	50^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	269	65	24.2%	50^th
1857 Mar-Mar	29	8	27.6%	50^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	9	100.0%	0^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	8	18.6%	33^rd
1860 Mar-May	158	45	28.5%	33^rd
1860 Jun-Jun	132	39	29.5%	67^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	28	25	89.3%	67^th
1859 Mar-Mar	32	31	96.9%	67^th
1860 Jun-Jun	10	10	100.0%	67^th
1869 Mar-Apr	59	14	23.7%	50^th
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	81	18	22.2%	64^th
1870 Mar-May	168	30	17.9%	9^th
1870 Jun-Jul	215	54	25.1%	27^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	194	54	27.8%	42^nd
1869 Apr-Apr	25	17	68.0%	80^th
1871 Mar-Apr	61	14	23.0%	62^nd
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	79	20	25.3%	62^nd
1872 Mar-May	339	136	40.1%	65^th
1872 Jun-Jun	93	93	100.0%	94^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	195	50	25.6%	41^st
1871 May-May	36	17	47.2%	81^st
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	57	13	22.8%	35^th
1874 Mar-May	116	27	23.3%	40^th
1874 Jun-Jun	82	28	34.1%	55^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	149	60	40.3%	81^st
1873 Mar-Mar	16	11	68.8%	85^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	89	21	23.6%	42^nd
1876 Apr-Jul	186	62	33.3%	41^st
1876 Aug-Aug	51	25	49.0%	67^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	84	34	40.5%	70^th
1875 Mar-Mar	24	19	79.2%	89^th
1877 Oct-Dec	71	60	84.5%	88^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	14	20.3%	45^th
1878 Mar-May	110	59	53.6%	91^st
1878 Jun-Jun	83	62	74.7%	88^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	236	83	35.2%	78^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	6	40.0%	74^th
1879 Mar-Jul	191	153	80.1%	96^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	32	65.3%	86^th
1880 Mar-May	127	79	62.2%	85^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	39	100.0%	94^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	122	74.4%	90^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo

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Missed Votes

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