Harlan was a senator from Iowa and was a Republican. He served from 1867 to 1873.
He was previously a senator from Iowa as a Republican from 1861 to 1865; and a senator from Iowa as a Republican from 1855 to 1861.
Alleged misconduct & resolution
Harlan faced an allegation of bribery and corruption in management of Union Pacific Railroad and Credit Mobilier of America. On Feb. 27, 1873, the Morrill Committee recommended censure. On Mar. 4, 1873, his term ended.
| Feb. 27, 1873 | Morrill Committee recommended censure. |
| Mar. 4, 1873 | Term ended. |
![Photo of Sen. James Harlan [R-IA, 1867-1873]](/static/legislator-photos/405090-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1856 to Mar 1873, Harlan missed 894 of 5,404 roll call votes, which is 16.5%. This is better than the median of 31.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1873. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
