Hopkins Turney, former Senator from Tennessee

Dates	Title	Representing
1845-1851	Senator	Tennessee
1839-1843	Representative	Tennessee's 5^th District
1837-1839	Representative	Tennessee's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1845 to Mar 1851, Turney missed 130 of 1,216 roll call votes, which is 10.7%. This is better than the median of 19.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1851. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1846 Apr-Jul	167	7	4.2%	0^th
1846 Aug-Aug	50	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	126	9	7.1%	15^th
1845 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	76^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	82	3	3.7%	3^rd
1848 Apr-Jul	116	5	4.3%	0^th
1848 Aug-Aug	66	10	15.2%	24^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	80	6	7.5%	6^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1850 Mar-May	64	6	9.4%	24^th
1850 Jun-Aug	154	15	9.7%	29^th
1850 Sep-Sep	108	39	36.1%	79^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	141	27	19.1%	48^th
1849 Mar-Mar	10	2	20.0%	57^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