Andrew Butler, former Senator from South Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1855-1857	Senator	South Carolina
1849-1855	Senator	South Carolina
1846-1849	Senator	South Carolina

Voting Record

From Mar 1846 to Mar 1857, Butler missed 746 of 2,343 roll call votes, which is 31.8%. This is worse than the median of 25.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1857. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	126	8	6.3%	0^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	82	2	2.4%	0^th
1848 Apr-Jul	116	13	11.2%	11^th
1848 Aug-Aug	66	11	16.7%	13^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	80	15	18.8%	35^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	22	6	27.3%	82^nd
1850 Mar-May	64	5	7.8%	12^th
1850 Jun-Aug	154	18	11.7%	35^th
1850 Sep-Sep	108	35	32.4%	78^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	141	68	48.2%	89^th
1849 Mar-Mar	10	1	10.0%	33^rd
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	38	25	65.8%	82^nd
1852 Apr-Jul	80	52	65.0%	95^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	34	37.4%	86^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	124	51	41.1%	86^th
1851 Mar-Mar	22	5	22.7%	43^rd
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	50	16	32.0%	56^th
1854 Apr-Jul	229	94	41.0%	71^st
1854 Aug-Aug	64	31	48.4%	82^nd
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	178	68	38.2%	81^st
1853 Mar-Apr	22	3	13.6%	18^th
1856 Jan-Mar	32	7	21.9%	34^th
1856 Apr-Jul	131	66	50.4%	81^st
1856 Aug-Aug	124	44	35.5%	68^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	1	6.3%	13^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	143	55	38.5%	76^th
1857 Mar-Mar	29	12	41.4%	71^st

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