Jacob Collamer, former Senator from Vermont

Dates	Title	Representing
1861-1865	Senator	Vermont
1855-1861	Senator	Vermont
1847-1849	Representative	Vermont's 2^nd District
1845-1847	Representative	Vermont's 2^nd District
1843-1845	Representative	Vermont's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Jan 1856 to Mar 1865, Collamer missed 941 of 3,133 roll call votes, which is 30.0%. This is worse than the median of 23.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1865. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1856 Jan-Mar	32	10	31.3%	80^th
1856 Apr-Jul	131	29	22.1%	40^th
1856 Aug-Aug	124	31	25.0%	70^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	16	100.0%	70^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	21	14.6%	50^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	13	22.8%	71^st
1858 Mar-May	216	78	36.1%	86^th
1858 Jun-Jun	116	32	27.6%	71^st
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	267	82	30.7%	79^th
1857 Mar-Mar	29	22	75.9%	77^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	9	100.0%	50^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	5	11.6%	38^th
1860 Mar-May	158	36	22.8%	63^rd
1860 Jun-Jun	131	68	51.9%	94^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	229	81	35.4%	88^th
1859 Mar-Mar	32	5	15.6%	50^th
1860 Jun-Jun	5	1	20.0%	56^th
1861 Jul-Aug	78	18	23.1%	81^st
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	73	13	17.8%	70^th
1862 Mar-May	146	27	18.5%	77^th
1862 Jun-Jul	213	47	22.1%	73^rd
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	241	60	24.9%	80^th
1861 Mar-Mar	42	5	11.9%	50^th
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	69	14	20.3%	66^th
1864 Mar-May	166	36	21.7%	59^th
1864 Jun-Jul	180	112	62.2%	93^rd
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	161	69	42.9%	90^th
1863 Mar-Mar	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1865 Mar-Mar	6	1	16.7%	34^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