Henry Dawes, former Senator for Massachusetts

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 11^th congressional district as a Republican from 1873 to 1875; the representative for Massachusetts’s 10^th congressional district as a Republican from 1865 to 1873; the representative for Massachusetts’s 10^th congressional district as a Republican from 1863 to 1865; the representative for Massachusetts’s 11^th congressional district as a Republican from 1861 to 1863; the representative for Massachusetts’s 11^th congressional district as a Republican from 1859 to 1861; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 11^th congressional district as a Republican from 1857 to 1859.

Photo of Sen. Henry Dawes [R-MA, 1887-1893]

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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	89	36	40.4%	64^th
1876 Apr-Jul	186	49	26.3%	50^th
1876 Aug-Aug	51	25	49.0%	70^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	84	14	16.7%	18^th
1875 Mar-Mar	24	20	83.3%	90^th
1877 Oct-Dec	71	7	9.9%	33^rd
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	11	15.9%	22^nd
1878 Mar-May	110	56	50.9%	83^rd
1878 Jun-Jun	83	25	30.1%	56^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	236	74	31.4%	67^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	4	26.7%	62^nd
1879 Mar-Jul	191	90	47.1%	62^nd
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	16	32.7%	48^th
1880 Mar-May	127	53	41.7%	48^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	12	30.8%	35^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	56	34.1%	52^nd
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	96	17	17.7%	31^st
1882 Apr-Jul	212	64	30.2%	48^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	15	39.5%	71^st
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	401	123	30.7%	64^th
1881 Mar-Mar	178	11	6.2%	7^th
1881 Oct-Oct	61	55	90.2%	93^rd
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	21	32.3%	57^th
1884 Mar-May	114	27	23.7%	43^rd
1884 Jun-Jul	78	12	15.4%	14^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	171	50	29.2%	54^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	15	23.8%	35^th
1886 Apr-Jul	234	64	27.4%	42^nd
1886 Aug-Aug	12	6	50.0%	60^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	143	69	48.3%	79^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	50	15	30.0%	42^nd
1888 Mar-May	64	23	35.9%	53^rd
1888 Jun-Aug	62	24	38.7%	40^th
1888 Sep-Oct	14	9	64.3%	62^nd
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	199	68	34.2%	55^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	31	6	19.4%	16^th
1890 Mar-May	114	17	14.9%	6^th
1890 Jun-Aug	150	34	22.7%	18^th
1890 Sep-Sep	79	12	15.2%	20^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	83	58.0%	79^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	2	22.2%	29^th
1892 Jan-Mar	26	6	23.1%	19^th
1892 Apr-Jul	78	39	50.0%	65^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	105	39	37.1%	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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Sen. Henry Dawes

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Missed Votes

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