Rep. Henry Van Aernam

Former Representative from New York’s 33^rd District, Republican

Van Aernam, a Republican, was the representative for New York's 33^rd congressional district from 1881 to 1883.

He was previously the representative for New York's 33^rd congressional district (1879-1881); and the representative for New York's 31^st congressional district (1865-1869).

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Voting Record

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From Dec 1865 to Mar 1883, Van Aernam missed 480 of 2,118 roll call votes, which is 22.7%. This is better than the median of 28.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1883. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	105	8	7.6%	33^rd
1866 Mar-May	142	35	24.6%	53^rd
1866 Jun-Jul	142	34	23.9%	65^th
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	224	32	14.3%	41^st
1867 Mar-Mar	61	18	29.5%	72^nd
1867 Jul-Jul	35	2	5.7%	11^th
1867 Nov-Nov	5	1	20.0%	39^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	142	19	13.4%	15^th
1868 Mar-May	126	89	70.6%	85^th
1868 Jun-Jul	150	26	17.3%	15^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	197	46	23.4%	50^th
1879 Mar-Jul	137	14	10.2%	23^rd
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	35	4	11.4%	24^th
1880 Mar-May	116	17	14.7%	13^th
1880 Jun-Jun	32	7	21.9%	34^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	119	47	39.5%	79^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	75	19	25.3%	40^th
1882 Apr-Jul	167	37	22.2%	27^th
1882 Aug-Aug	7	3	42.9%	42^nd
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	100	22	22.0%	36^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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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