Sen. Hiram Bingham

Former Senator for Connecticut

Bingham was a senator from Connecticut and was a Republican. He served from 1927 to 1933.

He was previously a senator from Connecticut as a Republican from 1924 to Mar 4, 1927.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Hiram Bingham [R-CT, 1927-1933]

Misconduct

Bingham hired a lobbyist who was still being paid by a manufacturing organization. On Nov. 4, 1929, the Senate censured him 54-22.

Oct. 17, 1929	Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary despite not being named in the investigation, Bingham volunteered to testify before the subcommittee to defend his former staff member, the lobbyist Charles Eyanson. Bingham said he asked the manufacturer's association to loan him Eyanson, but to keep paying Eyanson. Then Bingham temporarily replaced his principal clerk with Eyanson so that Eyanson could attend closed sessions on tariff proposals
Oct. 26, 1929	Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary condemned the arrangement, but did not recommend censure. Over the next few weeks, Bingham attacked the Judiciary subcommittee as having been unfairly partisan
Nov. 1, 1929	Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Norris introduced a resolution to censure Bingham for his discourteous behavior towards his colleagues.
Nov. 4, 1929	Senate censured 54-22 after the censure resolution was modified to indicate that Bingham had no corrupt motives
1932	Lost his bid for re-election.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1925 to Mar 1933, Bingham missed 272 of 1,209 roll call votes, which is 22.5%. This is on par with the median of 22.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1933. 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 1924-Mar 1925	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1926 Jan-Feb	59	24	40.7%	87^th
1926 Mar-May	51	1	2.0%	4^th
1926 Jun-Jul	38	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	77	16	20.8%	57^th
1925 Mar-Mar	11	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	125	22	17.6%	52^nd
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	66	7	10.6%	28^th
1929 May-Jun	36	10	27.8%	76^th
1929 Sep-Sep	8	3	37.5%	73^rd
1929 Oct-Nov	55	18	32.7%	81^st
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	100	9	9.0%	33^rd
1930 Mar-May	142	46	32.4%	72^nd
1930 Jun-Jul	23	4	17.4%	37^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	63	20	31.7%	75^th
1930 Jul-Jul	9	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	63	30	47.6%	74^th
1932 Mar-May	90	24	26.7%	66^th
1932 Jun-Jul	64	33	51.6%	81^st
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	63	5	7.9%	15^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo

Sen. Hiram Bingham

Misconduct

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources