Henry Anthony, former Senator for Rhode Island

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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]

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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	9	20.9%	0^th
1860 Mar-May	158	49	31.0%	0^th
1860 Jun-Jun	132	26	19.7%	0^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	232	23	9.9%	0^th
1859 Mar-Mar	32	1	3.1%	0^th
1860 Jun-Jun	10	1	10.0%	0^th
1861 Jul-Aug	79	4	5.1%	0^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	73	14	19.2%	50^th
1862 Mar-May	146	10	6.8%	0^th
1862 Jun-Jul	214	14	6.5%	0^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	247	28	11.3%	0^th
1861 Mar-Mar	42	3	7.1%	0^th
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	69	23	33.3%	50^th
1864 Mar-May	167	18	10.8%	0^th
1864 Jun-Jul	181	25	13.8%	0^th
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	161	45	28.0%	50^th
1863 Mar-Mar	19	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	39	3	7.7%	0^th
1866 Mar-May	102	24	23.5%	75^th
1866 Jun-Jul	137	45	32.8%	75^th
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	217	100	46.1%	75^th
1865 Mar-Mar	6	1	16.7%	0^th
1867 Mar-Apr	98	27	27.6%	25^th
1867 Jul-Jul	35	7	20.0%	25^th
1867 Nov-Nov	4	3	75.0%	75^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	55	16	29.1%	75^th
1868 Mar-May	180	32	17.8%	75^th
1868 Jun-Jul	187	80	42.8%	40^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	156	59	37.8%	60^th
1869 Mar-Apr	59	13	22.0%	33^rd
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	81	13	16.0%	50^th
1870 Mar-May	168	48	28.6%	17^th
1870 Jun-Jul	215	108	50.2%	67^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	194	70	36.1%	67^th
1869 Apr-Apr	25	3	12.0%	17^th
1871 Mar-Apr	61	14	23.0%	50^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	79	11	13.9%	0^th
1872 Mar-May	339	120	35.4%	22^nd
1872 Jun-Jun	93	25	26.9%	33^rd
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	195	55	28.2%	33^rd
1871 May-May	36	7	19.4%	25^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	57	16	28.1%	45^th
1874 Mar-May	116	33	28.4%	45^th
1874 Jun-Jun	82	32	39.0%	55^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	149	55	36.9%	75^th
1873 Mar-Mar	16	9	56.2%	82^nd
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	89	30	33.7%	72^nd
1876 Apr-Jul	186	69	37.1%	56^th
1876 Aug-Aug	51	8	15.7%	39^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	84	26	31.0%	44^th
1875 Mar-Mar	24	3	12.5%	44^th
1877 Oct-Dec	71	14	19.7%	62^nd
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	14	20.3%	45^th
1878 Mar-May	110	24	21.8%	34^th
1878 Jun-Jun	83	10	12.0%	10^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	236	66	28.0%	52^nd
1877 Mar-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1879 Mar-Jul	191	110	57.6%	82^nd
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	9	18.4%	22^nd
1880 Mar-May	127	50	39.4%	59^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	5	12.8%	17^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	67	40.9%	81^st
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	96	20	20.8%	40^th
1882 Apr-Jul	212	58	27.4%	37^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	5	13.2%	28^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	401	66	16.5%	11^th
1881 Mar-Mar	178	102	57.3%	79^th
1881 Oct-Oct	61	9	14.8%	28^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	48	73.8%	95^th
1884 Mar-May	114	111	97.4%	99^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	78	100.0%	96^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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