Rep. Henry Connor

Former Representative for North Carolina’s 11^th District

Connor was the representative for North Carolina’s 11^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1839 to 1841.

He was previously the representative for North Carolina’s 11^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1837 to 1839; the representative for North Carolina’s 11^th congressional district as a Jackson from 1835 to 1837; the representative for North Carolina’s 11^th congressional district as a Jackson from 1833 to 1835; the representative for North Carolina’s 11^th congressional district as a Jackson from 1831 to 1833; the representative for North Carolina’s 11^th congressional district as a Jackson from 1829 to 1831; the representative for North Carolina’s 11^th congressional district as a Jackson from 1827 to 1829; the representative for North Carolina’s 11^th congressional district as a Jackson from 1825 to 1827; the representative for North Carolina’s 11^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1823 to 1825; and the representative for North Carolina’s 11^th congressional district as a Republican from 1821 to 1823.

Bioguide

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Legislators who enslaved Black people

Connor was among more than 1,800 legislators who enslaved Black people. The Washington Post compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents. Connor was one of them.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1821 to Mar 1841, Connor missed 433 of 3,280 roll call votes, which is 13.2%. This is better than the median of 30.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1841. 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 1821-May 1822	71	1	1.4%	14^th
1823 Jan-Mar	24	4	16.7%	29^th
Dec 1823-May 1824	79	2	2.5%	8^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1826 Jan-May	58	1	1.7%	0^th
1827 Jan-Mar	53	3	5.7%	23^rd
Dec 1827-May 1828	160	3	1.9%	0^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	73	8	11.0%	12^th
Dec 1829-May 1830	185	15	8.1%	14^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	88	9	10.2%	41^st
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	53	1	1.9%	19^th
1832 Mar-May	98	6	6.1%	15^th
1832 Jun-Jul	168	23	13.7%	42^nd
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	143	13	9.1%	6^th
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1834 Mar-May	92	4	4.3%	10^th
1834 Jun-Jun	95	12	12.6%	41^st
Dec 1834-Mar 1835	105	49	46.7%	93^rd
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	57	2	3.5%	15^th
1836 Mar-May	150	19	12.7%	21^st
1836 Jun-Jul	116	16	13.8%	19^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	24	17.6%	39^th
1837 Sep-Oct	54	3	5.6%	22^nd
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	16	30.8%	76^th
1838 Mar-May	122	12	9.8%	14^th
1838 Jun-Jul	102	24	23.5%	59^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	145	26	17.9%	31^st
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	170	40	23.5%	58^th
1840 Mar-May	250	43	17.2%	12^th
1840 Jun-Jul	208	34	16.3%	15^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	20	16.3%	14^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

Rep. Henry Connor

Legislators who enslaved Black people

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Missed Votes

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