Rep. Lyman Bass

Former Representative for New York’s 32^nd District

Bass was the representative for New York’s 32^nd congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1875 to 1877.

He was previously the representative for New York’s 31^st congressional district as a Republican from 1873 to 1875.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1873 to Mar 1877, Bass missed 521 of 802 roll call votes, which is 65.0%. This is much worse than the median of 26.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1877. 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 1873-Feb 1874	78	23	29.5%	83^rd
1874 Mar-May	101	47	46.5%	90^th
1874 Jun-Jun	60	34	56.7%	94^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	235	113	48.1%	89^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	60	40	66.7%	97^th
1876 Apr-Jul	106	102	96.2%	100^th
1876 Aug-Aug	37	37	100.0%	87^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	125	125	100.0%	99^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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources