Niblack was the representative for Indiana’s 1st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1873 to 1875.
He was previously the representative for Indiana’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1865 to 1873; the representative for Indiana’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1859 to 1861; and the representative for Indiana’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1857 to 1859.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1857 to Mar 1875, Niblack missed 523 of 3,936 roll call votes, which is 13.3%. This is better than the median of 22.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1875. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
