Burnham was a senator from New Hampshire and was a Republican. He served from 1907 to 1913.
He was previously a senator from New Hampshire as a Republican from 1901 to 1907.
![Photo of Sen. Henry Burnham [R-NH, 1907-1913]](/static/legislator-photos/402070-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1901 to Mar 1913, Burnham missed 163 of 1,081 roll call votes, which is 15.1%. This is better than the median of 29.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1913. 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.
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
