Sen. Obadiah Gardner

Former Senator for Maine

Gardner was a senator from Maine and was a Democrat. He served from 1911 to 1913.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Obadiah Gardner [D-ME, 1911-1913]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1911 to Mar 1913, Gardner missed 171 of 302 roll call votes, which is 56.6%. This is much worse than the median of 29.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1913. 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 1911-Mar 1912	35	6	17.1%	38^th
1912 Apr-Jul	105	53	50.5%	77^th
1912 Aug-Aug	51	51	100.0%	89^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	111	61	55.0%	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

Sen. Obadiah Gardner

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources