John Logan, former Senator from Illinois

Dates	Title	Representing
1885-1887	Senator	Illinois
1879-1885	Senator	Illinois
1871-1877	Senator	Illinois
1867-1871	Representative	Illinois
1861-1863	Representative	Illinois's 9^th District
1859-1861	Representative	Illinois's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1871 to Dec 1886, Logan missed 1,479 of 3,683 roll call votes, which is 40.2%. This is worse than the median of 28.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1886. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1871 Mar-Apr	60	16	26.7%	60^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	79	28	35.4%	83^rd
1872 Mar-May	338	98	29.0%	29^th
1872 Jun-Jun	93	60	64.5%	86^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	192	85	44.3%	86^th
1871 May-May	16	1	6.3%	0^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	57	1	1.8%	0^th
1874 Mar-May	110	19	17.3%	27^th
1874 Jun-Jun	80	50	62.5%	82^nd
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	142	68	47.9%	82^nd
1873 Mar-Mar	16	2	12.5%	18^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	85	23	27.1%	47^th
1876 Apr-Jul	182	54	29.7%	56^th
1876 Aug-Aug	51	12	23.5%	44^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	80	31	38.8%	71^st
1875 Mar-Mar	20	1	5.0%	6^th
1879 Mar-Jul	191	45	23.6%	40^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	12	24.5%	50^th
1880 Mar-May	121	105	86.8%	97^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	33	84.6%	84^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	161	41	25.5%	47^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	93	60	64.5%	96^th
1882 Apr-Jul	206	109	52.9%	92^nd
1882 Aug-Aug	38	7	18.4%	46^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	386	111	28.8%	50^th
1881 Mar-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1881 Oct-Oct	60	26	43.3%	45^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	62	23	37.1%	61^st
1884 Mar-May	111	20	18.0%	27^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	58	74.4%	92^nd
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	156	144	92.3%	98^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	11	17.5%	30^th
1886 Apr-Jul	228	101	44.3%	69^th
1886 Aug-Aug	10	10	100.0%	84^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	8	5	62.5%	89^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	9	100.0%	99^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