John Stevenson, former Senator from Kentucky

Dates	Title	Representing
1871-1877	Senator	Kentucky
1859-1861	Representative	Kentucky's 10^th District
1857-1859	Representative	Kentucky's 10^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1871 to Mar 1877, Stevenson missed 471 of 1,599 roll call votes, which is 29.5%. This is better than the median of 30.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1877. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1871 Mar-Apr	59	6	10.2%	26^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	79	9	11.4%	15^th
1872 Mar-May	336	59	17.6%	9^th
1872 Jun-Jun	93	28	30.1%	43^rd
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	193	48	24.9%	26^th
1871 May-May	15	4	26.7%	58^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	55	9	16.4%	38^th
1874 Mar-May	112	86	76.8%	96^th
1874 Jun-Jun	81	18	22.2%	35^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	146	39	26.7%	49^th
1873 Mar-Mar	16	3	18.8%	33^rd
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	85	24	28.2%	55^th
1876 Apr-Jul	181	76	42.0%	58^th
1876 Aug-Aug	51	26	51.0%	67^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	77	31	40.3%	79^th
1875 Mar-Mar	20	5	25.0%	63^rd

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