King was a senator from New York and was a Republican. He served from 1857 to 1863.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 18th congressional district as a Democrat from 1851 to 1853; the representative for New York’s 18th congressional district as a Free Soil from 1849 to 1851; the representative for New York’s 18th congressional district as a Democrat from 1845 to 1847; and the representative for New York’s 18th congressional district as a Democrat from 1843 to 1845.
![Photo of Sen. Preston King [R-NY, 1857-1863]](/static/legislator-photos/406371-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1857 to Mar 1863, King missed 293 of 2,110 roll call votes, which is 13.9%. This is better than the median of 20.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1863. 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
