John McLaurin, former Senator from South Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1897-1903	Senator	South Carolina
1895-1897	Representative	South Carolina's 6^th District
1893-1895	Representative	South Carolina's 6^th District
1891-1893	Representative	South Carolina's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Jun 1897 to Mar 1903, McLaurin missed 264 of 565 roll call votes, which is 46.7%. This is worse than the median of 28.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1903. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1897 Mar-Jul	140	60	42.9%	68^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	20	9	45.0%	82^nd
1898 Mar-May	45	13	28.9%	60^th
1898 Jun-Jul	48	13	27.1%	63^rd
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	44	21	47.7%	81^st
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	18	3	16.7%	49^th
1900 Mar-May	49	37	75.5%	94^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	8	66.7%	96^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	74	35	47.3%	81^st
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	21	80.8%	95^th
1902 Mar-May	49	17	34.7%	78^th
1902 Jun-Jun	21	10	47.6%	86^th
1903 Jan-Mar	18	16	88.9%	94^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	64^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