Rep. William Hebard

Former Representative for Vermont’s 2^nd District

Hebard was the representative for Vermont’s 2^nd congressional district and was a Whig. He served from 1851 to 1853.

He was previously the representative for Vermont’s 2^nd congressional district as a Whig from 1849 to 1851.

Bioguide

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1849 to Mar 1853, Hebard missed 319 of 1,027 roll call votes, which is 31.1%. This is on par with the median of 27.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1853. 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 1849-Feb 1850	108	11	10.2%	30^th
1850 Mar-May	68	17	25.0%	52^nd
1850 Jun-Aug	146	21	14.4%	47^th
1850 Sep-Sep	117	33	28.2%	76^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	44	33.1%	82^nd
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	96	21	21.9%	38^th
1852 Apr-Jul	180	82	45.6%	79^th
1852 Aug-Aug	65	16	24.6%	40^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	74	64.9%	94^th

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources