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Richard Bayard </h1> <p> Former Senator for Delaware </p> </div> <div class="action-row clearfix"> </div> <div class="row group"> <div id="track_panel_base" class="col-sm-8 col-md-6"> <div style="margin: .5em 0 1em 0"> <p> Bayard was a senator from <a href="/congress/members/DE">Delaware</a> and was a Whig. He served from 1841 to 1845. </p> <p>He was previously a senator from <a href="/congress/members/DE">Delaware</a> as a Whig from Jun 17, 1836 to Mar 3, 1839.</p> </div> <div id="seealso-links" style="margin-bottom: 30px;"> <span> <a href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000251" target="_blank"><i class="fa-solid fa-user" style="margin-right: 7px"></i>Bioguide</a> </span> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div> </div> <div class="aside col-sm-4 col-md-3"> <div id="event_subscribe_inline_container"> </div> <div class="photo" style="margin-bottom: 10px"> <img src="/static/legislator-photos/401245-200px.jpeg" alt="Photo of Sen. 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Otherwise, try contacting your own senator:</p> <p><a href="/congress/members" class="btn btn-lg btn-success">Find Your Senator »</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p style="margin: 1em 0; font-size: 90%; line-height: 120%;">You are currently on the website GovTrack.us, which has no affiliation with Bayard and is <b>not</b> a government website. Choose from the options above to find the right way to contact Bayard.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <!-- /contact panel --> <div id="member-details"> <div class="ads footer leaderboard" data-zone="footer"> <div class="explainer">(<a href="/advertising">About Ads</a> | <a href="/accounts/membership">Hide These Ads</a>)</div> </div> <section id="voting-record"> <h2><span>Voting Record</span></h2> <h3>Missed Votes</h3> <p>From Jun 1836 to Mar 1845, Bayard missed 446 of 1,824 roll call votes, which is 24.5%. This is worse than the median of 16.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1845. The chart below reports missed votes over time.</p> <p><i> We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office. </i></p> <div id="voting_record_chart"> </div> <p style="text-align: center; margin-top: .5em; font-size: 90%;"><a href="#" onclick="$('#missedvotestable').slideDown(); $(this).hide(); return false;">Show the numbers...</a></p> <table id="missedvotestable" style="display: none"> <tr> <th>Time Period</th> <th>Votes Eligible</th> <th>Missed Votes</th> <th>Percent</th> <th>Percentile</th> </tr> <tr><td title="24th Congress, 1, Senate, Q3"> 1836 Jun-Jul </td> <td style="text-align: center">46</td> <td style="text-align: center">9</td> <td style="text-align: center">19.6%</td> <td style="text-align: center">73<sup>rd</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="24th Congress, 2, Senate, Q1"> Dec 1836-Mar 1837 </td> <td style="text-align: center">190</td> <td style="text-align: center">46</td> <td style="text-align: center">24.2%</td> <td style="text-align: center">64<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="25th Congress, 1, Senate, Q1"> 1837 Sep-Oct </td> <td style="text-align: center">36</td> <td style="text-align: center">10</td> <td style="text-align: center">27.8%</td> <td style="text-align: center">87<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="25th Congress, 2, Senate, Q1"> Dec 1837-Feb 1838 </td> <td style="text-align: center">63</td> <td style="text-align: center">17</td> <td style="text-align: center">27.0%</td> <td style="text-align: center">75<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="25th Congress, 2, Senate, Q2"> 1838 Mar-May </td> <td style="text-align: center">92</td> <td style="text-align: center">44</td> <td style="text-align: center">47.8%</td> <td style="text-align: center">88<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="25th Congress, 2, Senate, Q3"> 1838 Jun-Jul </td> <td style="text-align: center">78</td> <td style="text-align: center">18</td> <td style="text-align: center">23.1%</td> <td style="text-align: center">56<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="25th Congress, 3, Senate, Q1"> Dec 1838-Mar 1839 </td> <td style="text-align: center">134</td> <td style="text-align: center">52</td> <td style="text-align: center">38.8%</td> <td style="text-align: center">76<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="26th Congress, 2, Senate, Q1"> Dec 1840-Mar 1841 </td> <td style="text-align: center">58</td> <td style="text-align: center">13</td> <td style="text-align: center">22.4%</td> <td style="text-align: center">71<sup>st</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="27th Congress, 1, Senate, Q1"> 1841 Jun-Sep </td> <td style="text-align: center">318</td> <td style="text-align: center">66</td> <td style="text-align: center">20.8%</td> <td style="text-align: center">84<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="27th Congress, 2, Senate, Q1"> Dec 1841-Mar 1842 </td> <td style="text-align: center">44</td> <td style="text-align: center">19</td> <td style="text-align: center">43.2%</td> <td style="text-align: center">84<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="27th Congress, 2, Senate, Q2"> 1842 Apr-Jul </td> <td style="text-align: center">197</td> <td style="text-align: center">50</td> <td style="text-align: center">25.4%</td> <td style="text-align: center">78<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="27th Congress, 2, Senate, Q3"> 1842 Aug-Aug </td> <td style="text-align: center">128</td> <td style="text-align: center">18</td> <td style="text-align: center">14.1%</td> <td style="text-align: center">33<sup>rd</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="27th Congress, 3, Senate, Q1"> Dec 1842-Mar 1843 </td> <td style="text-align: center">127</td> <td style="text-align: center">31</td> <td style="text-align: center">24.4%</td> <td style="text-align: center">70<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="27th Congress, A, Senate, Q1"> 1841 Mar-Mar </td> <td style="text-align: center">8</td> <td style="text-align: center">1</td> <td style="text-align: center">12.5%</td> <td style="text-align: center">56<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="28th Congress, 1, Senate, Q1"> 1844 Jan-Feb </td> <td style="text-align: center">28</td> <td style="text-align: center">1</td> <td style="text-align: center">3.6%</td> <td style="text-align: center">8<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="28th Congress, 1, Senate, Q2"> 1844 Mar-May </td> <td style="text-align: center">106</td> <td style="text-align: center">15</td> <td style="text-align: center">14.2%</td> <td style="text-align: center">26<sup>th</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="28th Congress, 1, Senate, Q3"> 1844 Jun-Jun </td> <td style="text-align: center">76</td> <td style="text-align: center">13</td> <td style="text-align: center">17.1%</td> <td style="text-align: center">31<sup>st</sup></td></tr> <tr><td title="28th Congress, 2, Senate, Q1"> Dec 1844-Mar 1845 </td> <td style="text-align: center">95</td> <td style="text-align: center">23</td> <td style="text-align: center">24.2%</td> <td style="text-align: center">77<sup>th</sup></td></tr> </table> <!-- <div class="alert alert-info"> See how <a href="/congress/votes/presidential-candidates">presidential campaigns affect voting records</a>. </div> --> </section><!-- /voting-record --> <section> <h2><span>Primary Sources</span></h2> <p>The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:</p> <ul style="list-style: none; padding: 0;"> <li><a href="https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators">unitedstates/congress-legislators</a>, a community project gathering congressional information</li> <li><a href="http://voteview.com/dwnl.htm">United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990</a> by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole. </li> <li>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</li> <li><a href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=b000251">Biographical Directory of the United States Congress</a> for the photo</li> </ul> </section> </div><!-- /member-details --> <div id="pronunciation_modal" class="modal fade" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="pronunciationModalTitle" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog" role="document"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header"> <h2 class="modal-title" id="pronunciationModalTitle">Pronunciation Guide</h2> <button type="button" class="btn-close btn-close-white" data-bs-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"></button> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <center> <p>Richard Bayard is pronounced:</p> <p style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold; font-family: monospace;"></p> <p>The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:</p> <p>Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.</p> </center> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- /content --> </div> <!-- /container --> </div> <!-- /#bodybody --> <footer id="footer"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <nav class="col-6 col-md-2"> <ul> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/about">About GovTrack</a></li> <li><a href="/about-our-data">About the Data</a></li> <li><a href="/contact">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a href="/legal">Privacy & Legal</a></li> </ul> </nav> <nav class="col-6 col-md-2"> <ul> <li><a href="/posts/news"><i class="fas fa-list fa-fw"></i>Site News</a></li> <li><a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.social/@GovTrack"><i class="fab fa-mastodon fa-fw"></i>Mastodon</a></li> <li><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/govtrack.us"><i class="fab fa-bluesky fa-fw"></i>Bluesky</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/govtrack"><i class="fas fa-dollar-sign fa-fw"></i><span>Patreon</span></a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/govtrack"><i class="fab fa-github fa-fw"></i><span>GitHub</span></a></li> </ul> </nav> <section class="col-12 col-md-8"> <p>GovTrack helps everyone learn about and track the activities of the United States Congress. 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