Edward Baker, former Senator from Oregon

Dates	Title	Representing
1860-1861	Senator	Oregon
1849-1851	Representative	Illinois's 6^th District
1845-1847	Representative	Illinois's 7^th District

Voting Record

From May 1860 to Aug 1861, Baker missed 148 of 350 roll call votes, which is 42.3%. This is worse than the median of 20.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1861. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1860 Mar-May	1	1	100.0%	98^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	229	72	31.4%	80^th
1861 Jul-Aug	78	57	73.1%	94^th
1861 Mar-Mar	42	18	42.9%	68^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