Lafayette Foster, former Senator from Connecticut

Dates	Title	Representing
1861-1867	Senator	Connecticut
1855-1861	Senator	Connecticut

Voting Record

From Jan 1856 to Mar 1867, Foster missed 416 of 3,625 roll call votes, which is 11.5%. This is better than the median of 23.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1867. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1856 Jan-Mar	32	3	9.4%	20^th
1856 Apr-Jul	131	13	9.9%	10^th
1856 Aug-Aug	124	12	9.7%	20^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	3	2.1%	0^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	7	12.3%	36^th
1858 Mar-May	216	16	7.4%	7^th
1858 Jun-Jun	116	9	7.8%	0^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	267	79	29.6%	71^st
1857 Mar-Mar	29	1	3.4%	8^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	3	33.3%	29^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	1	2.3%	0^th
1860 Mar-May	158	33	20.9%	44^th
1860 Jun-Jun	130	24	18.5%	50^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	229	17	7.4%	24^th
1859 Mar-Mar	32	2	6.3%	19^th
1860 Jun-Jun	5	5	100.0%	81^st
1861 Jul-Aug	78	1	1.3%	0^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	73	1	1.4%	7^th
1862 Mar-May	146	13	8.9%	47^th
1862 Jun-Jul	213	16	7.5%	20^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	241	10	4.1%	10^th
1861 Mar-Mar	42	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	69	1	1.4%	2^nd
1864 Mar-May	166	15	9.0%	20^th
1864 Jun-Jul	180	47	26.1%	49^th
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	161	9	5.6%	2^nd
1863 Mar-Mar	19	1	5.3%	41^st
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	39	2	5.1%	14^th
1866 Mar-May	101	15	14.9%	37^th
1866 Jun-Jul	136	14	10.3%	11^th
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	217	43	19.8%	32^nd
1865 Mar-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^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