Elections and Offices
Sen. Ambrose Burnside [R-RI, 1875-1881] leaves office as Senator from Rhode Island
Mar 03, 1881Sen. Ambrose Burnside
Former Senator from Rhode Island
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Senator | Rhode Island |
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Voting Record
From Mar 1875 to Mar 1881, Burnside missed 407 of 1,523 roll call votes, which is 26.7%. This is better than the median of 27.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1881. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- 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
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Elections and Offices
Sen. Ambrose Burnside [R-RI, 1875-1881] takes office as Senator from Rhode Island
Dec 06, 1875