Arthur Gorman, former Senator from Maryland

Dates	Title	Representing
1903-1907	Senator	Maryland
1893-1899	Senator	Maryland
1887-1893	Senator	Maryland
1881-1887	Senator	Maryland

Voting Record

From Mar 1881 to Jun 1906, Gorman missed 1,697 of 4,022 roll call votes, which is 42.2%. This is worse than the median of 27.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1906. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	94	33	35.1%	71^st
1882 Apr-Jul	203	74	36.5%	57^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	4	10.5%	17^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	395	98	24.8%	50^th
1881 Mar-Mar	13	1	7.7%	71^st
1881 Oct-Oct	58	45	77.6%	29^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	15	23.1%	29^th
1884 Mar-May	111	53	47.7%	71^st
1884 Jun-Jul	77	45	58.4%	71^st
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	162	88	54.3%	86^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	60	34	56.7%	91^st
1886 Apr-Jul	227	84	37.0%	64^th
1886 Aug-Aug	10	5	50.0%	45^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	142	30	21.1%	64^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	2	22.2%	55^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	48	6	12.5%	17^th
1888 Mar-May	61	36	59.0%	75^th
1888 Jun-Aug	61	37	60.7%	75^th
1888 Sep-Oct	12	7	58.3%	58^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	197	102	51.8%	75^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	30	22	73.3%	83^rd
1890 Mar-May	107	43	40.2%	50^th
1890 Jun-Aug	146	53	36.3%	54^th
1890 Sep-Sep	77	23	29.9%	75^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	140	47	33.6%	69^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	2	22.2%	50^th
1892 Jan-Mar	25	15	60.0%	81^st
1892 Apr-Jul	78	27	34.6%	44^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	104	36	34.6%	50^th
1893 Aug-Oct	72	16	22.2%	29^th
1894 Jan-Mar	30	7	23.3%	50^th
1894 Apr-Jul	316	198	62.7%	94^th
1894 Aug-Aug	21	8	38.1%	44^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	99	32	32.3%	65^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	34	9	26.5%	59^th
1896 Mar-May	64	25	39.1%	63^rd
1896 Jun-Jun	22	15	68.2%	70^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	67	34	50.7%	70^th
1897 Mar-Jul	199	133	66.8%	91^st
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	24	13	54.2%	85^th
1898 Mar-May	50	11	22.0%	44^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	13	24.5%	62^nd
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	49	24	49.0%	82^nd
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	17	47.2%	67^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	10	17.9%	41^st
1906 Jan-Feb	8	8	100.0%	92^nd
1906 Mar-May	49	49	100.0%	97^th
1906 Jun-Jun	8	8	100.0%	95^th

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