Sen. Martin Bates

Former Senator from Delaware

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1857-1859	Senator	Delaware

Voting Record

From Mar 1857 to Mar 1859, Bates missed 586 of 694 roll call votes, which is 84.4%. This is worse than the median of 25.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1859. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	56	98.2%	97^th
1858 Mar-May	216	216	100.0%	96^th
1858 Jun-Jun	116	116	100.0%	94^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	267	160	59.9%	91^st
1857 Mar-Mar	29	29	100.0%	94^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	9	100.0%	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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Martin Bates [D-DE, 1857-1859] leaves office as Senator from Delaware

Mar 03, 1859

Elections and Offices

Sen. Martin Bates [D-DE, 1857-1859] takes office as Senator from Delaware

Dec 07, 1857