Ephraim Wilson, former Senator from Maryland

Dates	Title	Representing
1885-1891	Senator	Maryland
1873-1875	Representative	Maryland's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Mar 1885 to Feb 1891, Wilson missed 535 of 1,297 roll call votes, which is 41.2%. This is worse than the median of 31.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Feb 1891. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	18	28.6%	68^th
1886 Apr-Jul	228	70	30.7%	64^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	1	8.3%	11^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	139	47	33.8%	68^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	3	33.3%	76^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	48	18	37.5%	65^th
1888 Mar-May	61	30	49.2%	66^th
1888 Jun-Aug	60	27	45.0%	55^th
1888 Sep-Oct	14	4	28.6%	46^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	196	70	35.7%	49^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	27	11	40.7%	54^th
1890 Mar-May	112	33	29.5%	42^nd
1890 Jun-Aug	138	94	68.1%	82^nd
1890 Sep-Sep	76	33	43.4%	66^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	109	73	67.0%	85^th
1889 Mar-Apr	5	3	60.0%	76^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