Rep. Henry Slocum

Former Representative for New York

Slocum was the representative for New York and was a Democrat. He served from 1883 to 1885.

He was previously the representative for New York’s 3^rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1869 to 1873.

Bioguide

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1869 to Mar 1885, Slocum missed 622 of 1,485 roll call votes, which is 41.9%. This is much worse than the median of 29.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1885. 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
1869 Mar-Apr	83	23	27.7%	71^st
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	71	20	28.2%	79^th
1870 Mar-May	152	78	51.3%	95^th
1870 Jun-Jul	170	82	48.2%	89^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	158	39	24.7%	63^rd
1871 Mar-Apr	87	22	25.3%	78^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	89	27	30.3%	79^th
1872 Mar-May	156	80	51.3%	84^th
1872 Jun-Jun	35	6	17.1%	47^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	150	65	43.3%	95^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	34	7	20.6%	51^st
1884 Mar-May	71	28	39.4%	71^st
1884 Jun-Jul	83	62	74.7%	90^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	146	83	56.8%	90^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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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