Charles Farwell, former Senator from Illinois

Dates	Title	Representing
1887-1891	Senator	Illinois
1881-1883	Representative	Illinois's 3^rd District
1875-1877	Representative	Illinois's 3^rd District
1873-1875	Representative	Illinois's 3^rd District
1871-1873	Representative	Illinois's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Jul 1886 to Mar 1891, Farwell missed 558 of 975 roll call votes, which is 57.2%. This is worse than the median of 31.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1891. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1886 Apr-Jul	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	112	13	11.6%	14^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	49	18	36.7%	62^nd
1888 Mar-May	61	23	37.7%	55^th
1888 Jun-Aug	61	35	57.4%	70^th
1888 Sep-Oct	12	8	66.7%	66^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	184	122	66.3%	86^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	24	15	62.5%	85^th
1890 Mar-May	107	73	68.2%	89^th
1890 Jun-Aug	139	107	77.0%	84^th
1890 Sep-Sep	76	76	100.0%	92^nd
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	66	46.2%	66^th
1889 Mar-Apr	6	2	33.3%	55^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