Henry Blair, former Representative for New Hampshire's 1st Congressional District

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Blair was the representative for New Hampshire’s 1^st 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 3^rd congressional district as a Republican from 1877 to 1879; and the representative for New Hampshire’s 3^rd congressional district as a Republican from 1875 to 1877.

Photo of Rep. Henry Blair [R-NH1, 1893-1895]

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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1879 Mar-Jul	44	11	25.0%	35^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	7	14.3%	5^th
1880 Mar-May	127	30	23.6%	30^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	24	61.5%	74^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	30	18.3%	40^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	96	11	11.5%	14^th
1882 Apr-Jul	212	32	15.1%	29^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	3	7.9%	26^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	401	83	20.7%	22^nd
1881 Mar-Mar	178	20	11.2%	19^th
1881 Oct-Oct	61	9	14.8%	18^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	14	21.5%	38^th
1884 Mar-May	114	20	17.5%	31^st
1884 Jun-Jul	78	23	29.5%	38^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	171	33	19.3%	34^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	13	20.6%	32^nd
1886 Apr-Jul	234	32	13.7%	18^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	143	24	16.8%	22^nd
1885 Mar-Apr	7	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	50	19	38.0%	51^st
1888 Mar-May	64	12	18.8%	24^th
1888 Jun-Aug	62	9	14.5%	10^th
1888 Sep-Oct	14	2	14.3%	22^nd
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	199	105	52.8%	73^rd
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	31	1	3.2%	0^th
1890 Mar-May	114	16	14.0%	4^th
1890 Jun-Aug	150	50	33.3%	27^th
1890 Sep-Sep	79	58	73.4%	88^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	51	35.7%	47^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	3	33.3%	44^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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