John Ingalls, former Senator from Kansas

Dates	Title	Representing
1885-1891	Senator	Kansas
1873-1885	Senator	Kansas

Voting Record

From Mar 1873 to Mar 1891, Ingalls missed 1,365 of 4,508 roll call votes, which is 30.3%. This is better than the median of 31.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1891. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	52	12	23.1%	44^th
1874 Mar-May	104	10	9.6%	0^th
1874 Jun-Jun	81	19	23.5%	33^rd
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	147	31	21.1%	33^rd
1873 Mar-Mar	16	2	12.5%	11^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	87	8	9.2%	0^th
1876 Apr-Jul	184	40	21.7%	55^th
1876 Aug-Aug	50	13	26.0%	55^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	80	6	7.5%	0^th
1875 Mar-Mar	20	1	5.0%	0^th
1877 Oct-Dec	63	34	54.0%	77^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	63	21	33.3%	77^th
1878 Mar-May	105	34	32.4%	64^th
1878 Jun-Jun	82	30	36.6%	73^rd
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	229	105	45.9%	86^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	4	26.7%	58^th
1879 Mar-Jul	182	73	40.1%	62^nd
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	46	25	54.3%	88^th
1880 Mar-May	119	48	40.3%	70^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	2	5.1%	4^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	161	33	20.5%	36^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	95	48	50.5%	86^th
1882 Apr-Jul	209	46	22.0%	40^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	7	18.4%	53^rd
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	393	136	34.6%	68^th
1881 Mar-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1881 Oct-Oct	60	33	55.0%	49^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	64	16	25.0%	46^th
1884 Mar-May	108	47	43.5%	73^rd
1884 Jun-Jul	78	13	16.7%	27^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	165	42	25.5%	50^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	61	15	24.6%	54^th
1886 Apr-Jul	230	52	22.6%	43^rd
1886 Aug-Aug	12	2	16.7%	33^rd
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	141	45	31.9%	67^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	4	44.4%	83^rd
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	50	9	18.0%	21^st
1888 Mar-May	62	21	33.9%	49^th
1888 Jun-Aug	62	24	38.7%	45^th
1888 Sep-Oct	14	13	92.9%	82^nd
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	198	44	22.2%	28^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	31	9	29.0%	43^rd
1890 Mar-May	112	26	23.2%	27^th
1890 Jun-Aug	149	66	44.3%	57^th
1890 Sep-Sep	77	24	31.2%	52^nd
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	69	48.3%	67^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	3	33.3%	55^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