Harris was a senator from Tennessee and was a Democrat. He served from 1895 to 1897.
He was previously a senator from Tennessee as a Democrat from 1889 to 1895; a senator from Tennessee as a Democrat from 1883 to 1889; a senator from Tennessee as a Democrat from 1877 to 1883; the representative for Tennessee’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1851 to 1853; and the representative for Tennessee’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1849 to 1851.
![Photo of Sen. Isham Harris [D-TN, 1895-1897]](/static/legislator-photos/405121-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1877 to Jul 1897, Harris missed 1,385 of 5,097 roll call votes, which is 27.2%. This is better than the median of 33.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 1897. 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
