Henry was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 24th congressional district and was most recently a Whig (1841-1843) and previously an Anti Masonic (1839-1841). He served from 1839 to 1843.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 24th congressional district as an Anti Masonic from 1837 to 1839.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Sep 1837 to Mar 1843, Henry missed 604 of 2,200 roll call votes, which is 27.5%. This is on par with the median of 26.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1843. 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
