Lot Morrill, former Senator from Maine

Dates	Title	Representing
1869-1877	Senator	Maine
1863-1869	Senator	Maine
1861-1863	Senator	Maine

Voting Record

From Jan 1861 to Jul 1876, Morrill missed 1,482 of 4,850 roll call votes, which is 30.6%. This is worse than the median of 30.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 1876. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	201	41	20.4%	40^th
1861 Jul-Aug	78	10	12.8%	40^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	73	21	28.8%	80^th
1862 Mar-May	146	18	12.3%	60^th
1862 Jun-Jul	213	25	11.7%	25^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	241	19	7.9%	0^th
1861 Mar-Mar	42	2	4.8%	20^th
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	69	9	13.0%	25^th
1864 Mar-May	166	48	28.9%	75^th
1864 Jun-Jul	180	65	36.1%	75^th
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	161	37	23.0%	0^th
1863 Mar-Mar	19	1	5.3%	25^th
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	39	3	7.7%	29^th
1866 Mar-May	100	27	27.0%	83^rd
1866 Jun-Jul	134	67	50.0%	67^th
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	217	32	14.7%	0^th
1865 Mar-Mar	6	2	33.3%	60^th
1867 Mar-Apr	98	17	17.3%	38^th
1867 Jul-Jul	33	5	15.2%	33^rd
1867 Nov-Nov	4	1	25.0%	42^nd
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	54	10	18.5%	38^th
1868 Mar-May	179	28	15.6%	62^nd
1868 Jun-Jul	186	64	34.4%	44^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	154	47	30.5%	63^rd
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	81	19	23.5%	63^rd
1870 Mar-May	167	53	31.7%	58^th
1870 Jun-Jul	202	86	42.6%	58^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	193	193	100.0%	95^th
1871 Mar-Apr	60	39	65.0%	94^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	79	35	44.3%	74^th
1872 Mar-May	336	134	39.9%	74^th
1872 Jun-Jun	92	42	45.7%	63^rd
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	190	88	46.3%	86^th
1871 May-May	16	7	43.8%	77^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	57	7	12.3%	23^rd
1874 Mar-May	105	39	37.1%	65^th
1874 Jun-Jun	81	38	46.9%	81^st
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	146	32	21.9%	36^th
1873 Mar-Mar	16	3	18.8%	33^rd
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	82	21	25.6%	44^th
1876 Apr-Jul	133	40	30.1%	38^th
1875 Mar-Mar	20	7	35.0%	73^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