Anthony was a senator from Rhode Island and was a Republican. He served from 1883 to 1885.
He was previously a senator from Rhode Island as a Republican from 1877 to 1883; a senator from Rhode Island as a Republican from 1865 to 1877; and a senator from Rhode Island as a Republican from 1859 to 1865.
![Photo of Sen. Henry Anthony [R-RI, 1883-1885]](/static/legislator-photos/400900-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1859 to Jul 1884, Anthony missed 2,324 of 8,018 roll call votes, which is 29.0%. This is on par with the median of 32.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 1884. 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
