Banks was the representative for Massachusetts’s 5th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1889 to 1891.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 5th congressional district as a Republican from 1877 to 1879; the representative for Massachusetts’s 5th congressional district as an Independent from 1875 to 1877; the representative for Massachusetts’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1865 to 1873; the representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1857 to 1859; the representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district as an American from 1855 to 1857; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1853 to 1855.
![Photo of Rep. Nathaniel Banks [R-MA5, 1889-1891]](/static/legislator-photos/401117-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1853 to Mar 1891, Banks missed 2,017 of 5,128 roll call votes, which is 39.3%. This is on par with the median of 33.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1891. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
