Sen. William Barnum
Former Senator for Connecticut
Barnum was a senator from Connecticut and was a Democrat. He served from 1876 to 1879.
He was previously the representative for Connecticut’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1873 to 1875; and the representative for Connecticut’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1867 to 1873.
![Photo of Sen. William Barnum [D-CT, 1876-1879]](/static/legislator-photos/401168-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Feb 1876 to Mar 1879, Barnum missed 459 of 870 roll call votes, which is 52.8%. This is much worse than the median of 30.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1879. 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
