Rep. Hendrick Wright
Former Representative for Pennsylvania’s 12th District
Wright was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district and was most recently a National Greenbacker (1879-1881) and previously a Democrat (1877-1879). He served from 1877 to 1881.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from Jul 4, 1861 to Mar 3, 1863; and the representative for Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from Dec 5, 1853 to Mar 3, 1855.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1853 to Mar 1881, Wright missed 760 of 2,060 roll call votes, which is 36.9%. This is worse than the median of 27.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1881. 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