Blair was the representative for New Hampshire’s 1st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1893 to 1895.
He was previously a senator from New Hampshire as a Republican from 1885 to 1891; a senator from New Hampshire as a Republican from 1879 to 1885; the representative for New Hampshire’s 3rd congressional district as a Republican from 1877 to 1879; and the representative for New Hampshire’s 3rd congressional district as a Republican from 1875 to 1877.
![Photo of Rep. Henry Blair [R-NH1, 1893-1895]](/static/legislator-photos/401500-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jun 1879 to Mar 1891, Blair missed 745 of 3,211 roll call votes, which is 23.2%. This is better than the median of 35.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1891. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
