John McPherson, former Senator from New Jersey

Dates	Title	Representing
1889-1895	Senator	New Jersey
1883-1889	Senator	New Jersey
1877-1883	Senator	New Jersey

Voting Record

From Mar 1877 to Mar 1895, McPherson missed 2,348 of 4,270 roll call votes, which is 55.0%. This is worse than the median of 31.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1895. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1877 Oct-Dec	69	4	5.8%	31^st
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	22	31.9%	75^th
1878 Mar-May	103	49	47.6%	75^th
1878 Jun-Jun	83	62	74.7%	88^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	227	63	27.8%	69^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	2	13.3%	36^th
1879 Mar-Jul	175	123	70.3%	85^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	47	16	34.0%	70^th
1880 Mar-May	111	47	42.3%	75^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	16	41.0%	53^rd
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	158	63	39.9%	85^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	90	47	52.2%	86^th
1882 Apr-Jul	204	158	77.5%	96^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	38	100.0%	96^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	386	230	59.6%	85^th
1881 Mar-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1881 Oct-Oct	60	53	88.3%	93^rd
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	64	31	48.4%	84^th
1884 Mar-May	105	78	74.3%	94^th
1884 Jun-Jul	74	53	71.6%	91^st
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	158	72	45.6%	78^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	58	46	79.3%	93^rd
1886 Apr-Jul	227	124	54.6%	88^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	10	83.3%	83^rd
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	132	79	59.8%	90^th
1885 Mar-Apr	8	1	12.5%	44^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	46	19	41.3%	71^st
1888 Mar-May	61	28	45.9%	65^th
1888 Jun-Aug	59	47	79.7%	92^nd
1888 Sep-Oct	14	13	92.9%	84^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	187	133	71.1%	94^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	28	6	21.4%	35^th
1890 Mar-May	103	59	57.3%	84^th
1890 Jun-Aug	144	54	37.5%	51^st
1890 Sep-Sep	71	47	66.2%	86^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	128	65	50.8%	81^st
1889 Mar-Apr	6	6	100.0%	96^th
1892 Jan-Mar	25	13	52.0%	74^th
1892 Apr-Jul	74	43	58.1%	81^st
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	97	32	33.0%	45^th
1893 Aug-Oct	66	5	7.6%	7^th
1894 Jan-Mar	26	19	73.1%	94^th
1894 Apr-Jul	299	195	65.2%	89^th
1894 Aug-Aug	15	15	100.0%	91^st
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	90	59	65.6%	87^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	3	50.0%	58^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