Frederick Frelinghuysen, former Senator from New Jersey

Dates	Title	Representing
1871-1877	Senator	New Jersey
1866-1869	Senator	New Jersey

Voting Record

From Jan 1866 to Mar 1877, Frelinghuysen missed 458 of 2,535 roll call votes, which is 18.1%. This is better than the median of 30.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1877. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	2	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	216	58	26.9%	57^th
1867 Mar-Apr	98	8	8.2%	0^th
1867 Jul-Jul	33	1	3.0%	0^th
1867 Nov-Nov	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	54	6	11.1%	15^th
1868 Mar-May	180	22	12.2%	31^st
1868 Jun-Jul	186	68	36.6%	50^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	155	24	15.5%	13^th
1871 Mar-Apr	60	3	5.0%	0^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	79	4	5.1%	0^th
1872 Mar-May	333	62	18.6%	11^th
1872 Jun-Jun	93	12	12.9%	3^rd
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	194	35	18.0%	14^th
1871 May-May	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	55	9	16.4%	38^th
1874 Mar-May	111	19	17.1%	15^th
1874 Jun-Jun	81	11	13.6%	17^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	147	31	21.1%	30^th
1873 Mar-Mar	16	3	18.8%	33^rd
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	87	3	3.4%	4^th
1876 Apr-Jul	183	40	21.9%	22^nd
1876 Aug-Aug	51	3	5.9%	1^st
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	80	36	45.0%	84^th
1875 Mar-Mar	20	0	0.0%	0^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