Blair was the representative for West Virginia’s 1st congressional district and was an Unconditional Unionist. He served from 1863 to 1865.
He was previously the representative for Virginia’s 11th congressional district as an Unionist from 1861 to 1863.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jul 1861 to Mar 1865, Blair missed 386 of 1,185 roll call votes, which is 32.6%. This is on par with the median of 28.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1865. 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
