Sen. Henry Baldwin

Former Senator for Michigan

Baldwin was a senator from Michigan and was a Republican. He served from 1879 to 1881.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Henry Baldwin [R-MI, 1879-1881]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1879 to Mar 1881, Baldwin missed 135 of 379 roll call votes, which is 35.6%. This is on par with 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, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	12	24.5%	33^rd
1880 Mar-May	127	56	44.1%	63^rd
1880 Jun-Jun	39	11	28.2%	45^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	56	34.1%	53^rd

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

Sen. Henry Baldwin

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources