Edward Wolcott, former Senator from Colorado

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1901	Senator	Colorado
1889-1895	Senator	Colorado

Voting Record

From Mar 1889 to Mar 1901, Wolcott missed 1,276 of 1,957 roll call votes, which is 65.2%. 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 1889-Feb 1890	28	15	53.6%	76^th
1890 Mar-May	106	80	75.5%	96^th
1890 Jun-Aug	146	121	82.9%	81^st
1890 Sep-Sep	76	26	34.2%	65^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	135	54	40.0%	78^th
1889 Mar-Apr	6	3	50.0%	78^th
1892 Jan-Mar	22	12	54.5%	84^th
1892 Apr-Jul	76	24	31.6%	50^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	103	37	35.9%	56^th
1893 Aug-Oct	74	36	48.6%	76^th
1894 Jan-Mar	28	20	71.4%	94^th
1894 Apr-Jul	311	306	98.4%	97^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	20	100.0%	91^st
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	96	27	28.1%	51^st
1893 Apr-Apr	6	6	100.0%	64^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	24	17	70.8%	98^th
1896 Mar-May	60	34	56.7%	85^th
1896 Jun-Jun	24	12	50.0%	63^rd
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	70	66	94.3%	98^th
1897 Mar-Jul	200	192	96.0%	99^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	25	12	48.0%	84^th
1898 Mar-May	51	22	43.1%	84^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	17	32.1%	73^rd
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	48	29	60.4%	93^rd
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	6	30.0%	66^th
1900 Mar-May	57	30	52.6%	71^st
1900 Jun-Jun	12	4	33.3%	58^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	80	48	60.0%	89^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