John Calhoun, former Senator from South Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1847-1851	Senator	South Carolina
1845-1847	Senator	South Carolina
1835-1843	Senator	South Carolina
1832-1835	Senator	South Carolina
1825-1832	Vice President
1817-1819	Representative	South Carolina
1815-1817	Representative	South Carolina's 6^th District
1811-1815	Representative	South Carolina's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Feb 1832 to Mar 1850, Calhoun missed 813 of 3,084 roll call votes, which is 26.4%. This is worse than the median of 19.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1850. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	132	62	47.0%	71^st
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	13	1	7.7%	71^st
1834 Mar-May	67	16	23.9%	14^th
1834 Jun-Jun	69	15	21.7%	86^th
1835 Jan-Mar	79	18	22.8%	71^st
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	21	5	23.8%	63^rd
1836 Mar-May	137	44	32.1%	50^th
1836 Jun-Jul	86	19	22.1%	63^rd
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	187	47	25.1%	29^th
1837 Sep-Oct	36	8	22.2%	50^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	63	18	28.6%	50^th
1838 Mar-May	91	28	30.8%	67^th
1838 Jun-Jul	78	49	62.8%	83^rd
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	134	37	27.6%	50^th
1840 Jan-Feb	36	5	13.9%	38^th
1840 Mar-May	79	19	24.1%	38^th
1840 Jun-Jul	140	36	25.7%	50^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	71	12	16.9%	33^rd
1841 Jun-Sep	317	54	17.0%	67^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	44	3	6.8%	36^th
1842 Apr-Jul	194	68	35.1%	82^nd
1842 Aug-Aug	127	26	20.5%	50^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	125	30	24.0%	70^th
1841 Mar-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	22	3	13.6%	65^th
1846 Apr-Jul	167	23	13.8%	32^nd
1846 Aug-Aug	50	5	10.0%	23^rd
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	126	36	28.6%	69^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	82	5	6.1%	13^th
1848 Apr-Jul	116	28	24.1%	51^st
1848 Aug-Aug	66	21	31.8%	76^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	80	48	60.0%	94^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	22	15	68.2%	97^th
1850 Mar-May	10	8	80.0%	98^th
1849 Mar-Mar	10	1	10.0%	33^rd

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