Donelson Caffery, former Senator from Louisiana

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1901	Senator	Louisiana
1892-1895	Senator	Louisiana

Voting Record

From Jan 1893 to Mar 1901, Caffery missed 438 of 1,347 roll call votes, which is 32.5%. This is worse than the median of 31.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1901. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	92	34	37.0%	59^th
1893 Aug-Oct	73	9	12.3%	24^th
1894 Jan-Mar	30	8	26.7%	62^nd
1894 Apr-Jul	309	75	24.3%	41^st
1894 Aug-Aug	21	10	47.6%	65^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	94	43	45.7%	81^st
1893 Apr-Apr	6	1	16.7%	21^st
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	34	4	11.8%	19^th
1896 Mar-May	65	21	32.3%	56^th
1896 Jun-Jun	22	15	68.2%	75^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	69	27	39.1%	55^th
1897 Mar-Jul	197	67	34.0%	51^st
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	22	7	31.8%	74^th
1898 Mar-May	49	14	28.6%	54^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	9	17.0%	42^nd
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	49	16	32.7%	64^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	6	30.0%	66^th
1900 Mar-May	51	33	64.7%	84^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	5	41.7%	76^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	79	34	43.0%	75^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