Dawes was a senator from Massachusetts and was a Republican. He served from 1887 to 1893.
He was previously a senator from Massachusetts as a Republican from 1881 to 1887; a senator from Massachusetts as a Republican from 1875 to 1881; the representative for Massachusetts’s 11th congressional district as a Republican from 1873 to 1875; the representative for Massachusetts’s 10th congressional district as a Republican from 1865 to 1873; the representative for Massachusetts’s 10th congressional district as a Republican from 1863 to 1865; the representative for Massachusetts’s 11th congressional district as a Republican from 1861 to 1863; the representative for Massachusetts’s 11th congressional district as a Republican from 1859 to 1861; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 11th congressional district as a Republican from 1857 to 1859.
![Photo of Sen. Henry Dawes [R-MA, 1887-1893]](/static/legislator-photos/403281-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1875 to Mar 1893, Dawes missed 1,474 of 4,587 roll call votes, which is 32.1%. This is on par with the median of 35.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1893. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
