Henderson was the representative for Illinois’s 7th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1893 to 1895.
He was previously the representative for Illinois’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1891 to 1893; the representative for Illinois’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1889 to 1891; the representative for Illinois’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1887 to 1889; the representative for Illinois’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1885 to 1887; the representative for Illinois’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1883 to 1885; the representative for Illinois’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1881 to 1883; the representative for Illinois’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1877 to 1881; and the representative for Illinois’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1875 to 1877.
![Photo of Rep. Thomas Jefferson Henderson [R-IL7, 1893-1895]](/static/legislator-photos/405352-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1875 to Mar 1895, Henderson missed 1,419 of 3,717 roll call votes, which is 38.2%. This is on par with the median of 37.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1895. 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
