Sen. Herbert Lehman

Former Senator for New York

Lehman was a senator from New York and was a Democrat. He served from 1949 to 1956.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Herbert Lehman [D-NY, 1949-1956]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1949 to Jul 1956, Lehman missed 18 of 1,256 roll call votes, which is 1.4%. This is better than the median of 6.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 1956. 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
1949 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	86	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	82	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	55	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	85	1	1.2%	8^th
1950 Jul-Sep	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan 81st Congress	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Mar	20	1	5.0%	50^th
1951 Apr-Jun	70	7	10.0%	85^th
1951 Jul-Sep	94	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Oct-Oct	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Apr-Jun	95	1	1.1%	12^th
1952 Jul-Jul	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	43	2	4.7%	42^nd
1953 Jul-Jul	38	1	2.6%	64^th
1954 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	50	3	6.0%	45^th
1954 Jul-Sep	91	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Apr-Jun	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	50	2	4.0%	39^th
1956 Jul-Jul	33	0	0.0%	0^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

Sen. Herbert Lehman

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources