Laird was the representative for Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1889 to 1891.
He was previously the representative for Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1887 to 1889; the representative for Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1885 to 1887; and the representative for Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1883 to 1885.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1883 to Jun 1890, Laird missed 524 of 961 roll call votes, which is 54.5%. This is much worse than the median of 33.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1890. 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
