Belden was the representative for New York’s 27th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1897 to 1899.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 27th congressional district as a Republican from 1893 to 1895; the representative for New York’s 25th congressional district as a Republican from 1891 to 1893; the representative for New York’s 25th congressional district as a Republican from 1889 to 1891; and the representative for New York’s 25th congressional district as a Republican from 1887 to 1889.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1887 to Mar 1899, Belden missed 1,085 of 1,767 roll call votes, which is 61.4%. This is much worse than the median of 34.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1899. 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
