Hendricks was a senator from Indiana and was an Adams. He served from 1831 to 1837.
He was previously a senator from Indiana as an Adams from 1825 to 1831; the representative for Indiana’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1821 to 1823; the representative for Indiana’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1819 to 1821; the representative for Indiana’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1817 to 1819; and the representative for Indiana’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1815 to 1817.
![Photo of Sen. William Hendricks [A-IN, 1831-1837]](/static/legislator-photos/405357-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1825 to Mar 1837, Hendricks missed 146 of 1,832 roll call votes, which is 8.0%. This is better than the median of 19.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1837. 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
