Francis Cockrell, former Senator from Missouri

Dates	Title	Representing
1899-1905	Senator	Missouri
1893-1899	Senator	Missouri
1887-1893	Senator	Missouri
1881-1887	Senator	Missouri
1875-1881	Senator	Missouri

Voting Record

From Mar 1875 to Mar 1905, Cockrell missed 1,356 of 5,678 roll call votes, which is 23.9%. This is better than the median of 26.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1905. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	85	10	11.8%	25^th
1876 Apr-Jul	183	16	8.7%	0^th
1876 Aug-Aug	51	4	7.8%	0^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	79	20	25.3%	75^th
1875 Mar-Mar	20	2	10.0%	0^th
1877 Oct-Dec	70	6	8.6%	33^rd
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	60	17	28.3%	83^rd
1878 Mar-May	107	29	27.1%	67^th
1878 Jun-Jun	82	24	29.3%	67^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	232	55	23.7%	50^th
1877 Mar-Mar	14	5	35.7%	67^th
1879 Mar-Jul	189	60	31.7%	50^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	11	22.4%	50^th
1880 Mar-May	123	16	13.0%	0^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	5	12.8%	17^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	161	55	34.2%	50^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	94	27	28.7%	73^rd
1882 Apr-Jul	207	69	33.3%	64^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	13	34.2%	80^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	382	80	20.9%	20^th
1881 Mar-Mar	12	1	8.3%	91^st
1881 Oct-Oct	61	13	21.3%	36^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	52	25	48.1%	73^rd
1884 Mar-May	104	29	27.9%	64^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	41	52.6%	64^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	160	58	36.3%	64^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	16	25.4%	56^th
1886 Apr-Jul	221	65	29.4%	56^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	1	8.3%	13^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	130	25	19.2%	50^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	5	55.6%	80^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	36	11	30.6%	65^th
1888 Mar-May	55	7	12.7%	20^th
1888 Jun-Aug	60	8	13.3%	20^th
1888 Sep-Oct	12	3	25.0%	45^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	187	53	28.3%	60^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	28	12	42.9%	60^th
1890 Mar-May	107	26	24.3%	45^th
1890 Jun-Aug	142	29	20.4%	33^rd
1890 Sep-Sep	77	5	6.5%	25^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	131	39	29.8%	57^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1892 Jan-Mar	26	9	34.6%	50^th
1892 Apr-Jul	77	11	14.3%	8^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	104	31	29.8%	54^th
1893 Aug-Oct	71	38	53.5%	80^th
1894 Jan-Mar	29	8	27.6%	69^th
1894 Apr-Jul	309	26	8.4%	0^th
1894 Aug-Aug	21	2	9.5%	12^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	99	18	18.2%	21^st
1893 Apr-Apr	6	1	16.7%	25^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	34	5	14.7%	29^th
1896 Mar-May	63	9	14.3%	18^th
1896 Jun-Jun	20	12	60.0%	71^st
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	68	32	47.1%	68^th
1897 Mar-Jul	196	29	14.8%	20^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	23	3	13.0%	38^th
1898 Mar-May	50	9	18.0%	33^rd
1898 Jun-Jul	51	8	15.7%	50^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	48	13	27.1%	52^nd
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	4	20.0%	53^rd
1900 Mar-May	56	22	39.3%	55^th
1900 Jun-Jun	11	6	54.5%	90^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	77	19	24.7%	59^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	3	11.5%	38^th
1902 Mar-May	49	6	12.2%	41^st
1902 Jun-Jun	23	2	8.7%	34^th
1903 Jan-Mar	17	7	41.2%	66^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	12	33.3%	46^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	15	26.8%	62^nd

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