Rep. William Henry

Former Representative for Vermont’s 1^st District

Henry was the representative for Vermont’s 1^st congressional district and was a Whig. He served from 1849 to 1851.

He was previously the representative for Vermont’s 1^st congressional district as a Whig from Dec 6, 1847 to Mar 3, 1849.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1847 to Mar 1851, Henry missed 83 of 1,050 roll call votes, which is 7.9%. This is better than the median of 21.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1851. 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 1847-Mar 1848	101	3	3.0%	0^th
1848 Apr-Jul	151	21	13.9%	20^th
1848 Aug-Aug	71	10	14.1%	32^nd
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	155	3	1.9%	1^st
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	2	1.9%	3^rd
1850 Mar-May	68	8	11.8%	21^st
1850 Jun-Aug	146	16	11.0%	31^st
1850 Sep-Sep	117	13	11.1%	35^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	7	5.3%	6^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

Rep. William Henry

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources