John Slidell, former Senator from Louisiana

Dates	Title	Representing
1855-1861	Senator	Louisiana
1853-1855	Senator	Louisiana
1845-1847	Representative	Louisiana's 1^st District
1843-1845	Representative	Louisiana's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1853 to Jan 1861, Slidell missed 554 of 2,080 roll call votes, which is 26.6%. This is worse than the median of 21.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 1861. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	50	4	8.0%	9^th
1854 Apr-Jul	229	22	9.6%	9^th
1854 Aug-Aug	64	18	28.1%	43^rd
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	178	54	30.3%	58^th
1856 Jan-Mar	32	4	12.5%	15^th
1856 Apr-Jul	131	61	46.6%	74^th
1856 Aug-Aug	124	22	17.7%	38^th
1856 Aug-Aug	15	9	60.0%	74^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	21	14.6%	32^nd
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	16	28.1%	67^th
1858 Mar-May	216	20	9.3%	9^th
1858 Jun-Jun	115	38	33.0%	67^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	266	94	35.3%	76^th
1857 Mar-Mar	29	4	13.8%	25^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	2	22.2%	40^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	3	7.0%	12^th
1860 Mar-May	158	44	27.8%	55^th
1860 Jun-Jun	129	63	48.8%	83^rd
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	54	18	33.3%	75^th
1859 Mar-Mar	32	32	100.0%	88^th
1860 Jun-Jun	5	5	100.0%	77^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