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 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1845 to 1847; and the representative for Maine’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1843 to 1845.
![Photo of Sen. Hannibal Hamlin [R-ME, 1875-1881]](/static/legislator-photos/405003-200px.jpeg)
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.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
