John Hale, former Senator for New Hampshire

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Hale was a senator from New Hampshire and was a Republican. He served from 1859 to 1865.

He was previously a senator from New Hampshire as a Republican from 1855 to 1859; a senator from New Hampshire as a Free Soil from 1847 to 1853; and the representative for New Hampshire as a Democrat from 1843 to 1845.

Photo of Sen. John Hale [R-NH, 1859-1865]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1847 to Mar 1865, Hale missed 1,500 of 4,357 roll call votes, which is 34.4%. This is worse than the median of 18.5% among the lifetime records of senators 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 and major life events.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	82	16	19.5%	50^th
1848 Apr-Jul	116	27	23.3%	0^th
1848 Aug-Aug	66	18	27.3%	50^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	80	26	32.5%	0^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	22	13	59.1%	0^th
1850 Mar-May	64	9	14.1%	0^th
1850 Jun-Aug	154	44	28.6%	0^th
1850 Sep-Sep	108	41	38.0%	0^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	141	60	42.6%	0^th
1849 Mar-Mar	10	2	20.0%	0^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	38	21	55.3%	80^th
1852 Apr-Jul	80	21	26.2%	40^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	39	42.9%	80^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	127	59	46.5%	80^th
1851 Mar-Mar	22	8	36.4%	80^th
1856 Jan-Mar	32	11	34.4%	75^th
1856 Apr-Jul	133	66	49.6%	67^th
1856 Aug-Aug	124	47	37.9%	67^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	16	100.0%	67^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	72	50.0%	83^rd
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	10	17.5%	50^th
1858 Mar-May	217	82	37.8%	88^th
1858 Jun-Jun	121	39	32.2%	75^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	269	70	26.0%	62^nd
1857 Mar-Mar	29	29	100.0%	87^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	9	100.0%	44^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	11	25.6%	81^st
1860 Mar-May	158	40	25.3%	62^nd
1860 Jun-Jun	132	30	22.7%	52^nd
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	232	49	21.1%	82^nd
1859 Mar-Mar	32	4	12.5%	43^rd
1860 Jun-Jun	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1861 Jul-Aug	79	17	21.5%	73^rd
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	73	12	16.4%	62^nd
1862 Mar-May	146	56	38.4%	89^th
1862 Jun-Jul	214	32	15.0%	47^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	247	174	70.4%	95^th
1861 Mar-Mar	42	8	19.0%	68^th
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	69	14	20.3%	58^th
1864 Mar-May	167	41	24.6%	57^th
1864 Jun-Jul	181	72	39.8%	76^th
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	161	69	42.9%	79^th
1863 Mar-Mar	19	16	84.2%	83^rd

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

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