Maynard was the representative for Tennessee and was a Republican. He served from 1873 to 1875.
He was previously the representative for Tennessee’s 2nd congressional district as most recently a Republican (1867-1873) and previously an Unconditional Unionist (1865-1867) from 1865 to 1873; the representative for Tennessee’s 2nd congressional district as an Unionist from 1861 to 1863; the representative for Tennessee’s 2nd congressional district as an Ind. Republican-Democrat from 1859 to 1861; and the representative for Tennessee’s 2nd congressional district as an American from 1857 to 1859.
![Photo of Rep. Horace Maynard [R-TN-1, 1873-1875]](/static/legislator-photos/407301-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1857 to Mar 1875, Maynard missed 717 of 4,063 roll call votes, which is 17.6%. This is better than the median of 22.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1875. 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.
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
