Graham Fitch, former Senator from Indiana

Dates	Title	Representing
1857-1861	Senator	Indiana
1851-1853	Representative	Indiana's 9^th District
1849-1851	Representative	Indiana's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Feb 1857 to Mar 1861, Fitch missed 354 of 1,396 roll call votes, which is 25.4%. This is worse than the median of 21.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1861. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	104	19	18.3%	41^st
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	12	21.1%	57^th
1858 Mar-May	216	81	37.5%	83^rd
1858 Jun-Jun	116	22	19.0%	33^rd
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	267	57	21.3%	51^st
1857 Mar-Mar	29	2	6.9%	13^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	3	7.0%	12^th
1860 Mar-May	158	59	37.3%	75^th
1860 Jun-Jun	131	32	24.4%	42^nd
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	229	64	27.9%	62^nd
1859 Mar-Mar	32	2	6.3%	25^th
1860 Jun-Jun	5	1	20.0%	38^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