James Bayard Jr., former Senator for Delaware

Bayard was a senator from Delaware and was a Democrat. He served from 1867 to 1869.

He was previously a senator from Delaware as a Democrat from 1863 to 1865; a senator from Delaware as a Democrat from 1857 to 1863; and a senator from Delaware as a Democrat from 1851 to 1857.

Photo of Sen. James Bayard Jr. [D-DE, 1867-1869]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1851 to Mar 1869, Bayard missed 2,273 of 4,161 roll call votes, which is 54.6%. This is much worse than the median of 23.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1869. 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
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	38	16	42.1%	67^th
1852 Apr-Jul	80	46	57.5%	67^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	22	24.2%	67^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	127	41	32.3%	67^th
1851 Mar-Mar	22	6	27.3%	67^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	51	19	37.3%	75^th
1854 Apr-Jul	230	71	30.9%	75^th
1854 Aug-Aug	64	26	40.6%	75^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	178	65	36.5%	80^th
1853 Mar-Apr	23	5	21.7%	33^rd
1856 Jan-Mar	32	18	56.2%	86^th
1856 Apr-Jul	133	92	69.2%	71^st
1856 Aug-Aug	124	48	38.7%	57^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	1	6.2%	14^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	71	49.3%	71^st
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	21	36.8%	73^rd
1858 Mar-May	217	65	30.0%	73^rd
1858 Jun-Jun	121	31	25.6%	55^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	269	92	34.2%	73^rd
1857 Mar-Mar	29	25	86.2%	73^rd
1858 Jun-Jun	9	9	100.0%	45^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	11	25.6%	79^th
1860 Mar-May	158	106	67.1%	93^rd
1860 Jun-Jun	132	65	49.2%	93^rd
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	232	120	51.7%	87^th
1859 Mar-Mar	32	19	59.4%	79^th
1860 Jun-Jun	10	1	10.0%	7^th
1861 Jul-Aug	79	64	81.0%	94^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	73	55	75.3%	95^th
1862 Mar-May	146	120	82.2%	95^th
1862 Jun-Jul	214	188	87.9%	95^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	247	201	81.4%	95^th
1861 Mar-Mar	42	32	76.2%	82^nd
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	37	37	100.0%	97^th
1863 Mar-Mar	19	19	100.0%	93^rd
1867 Mar-Apr	24	19	79.2%	89^th
1867 Jul-Jul	35	21	60.0%	72^nd
1867 Nov-Nov	4	3	75.0%	68^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	55	34	61.8%	94^th
1868 Mar-May	180	92	51.1%	96^th
1868 Jun-Jul	187	160	85.6%	90^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	1	100.0%	53^rd
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	156	115	73.7%	97^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. James Bayard Jr.

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Missed Votes

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