Matthew Butler, former Senator from South Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1889-1895	Senator	South Carolina
1883-1889	Senator	South Carolina
1877-1883	Senator	South Carolina

Voting Record

From Nov 1877 to Mar 1895, Butler missed 1,904 of 4,164 roll call votes, which is 45.7%. This is worse than the median of 31.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1895. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1877 Oct-Dec	11	9	81.8%	94^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	61	19	31.1%	69^th
1878 Mar-May	107	33	30.8%	56^th
1878 Jun-Jun	83	13	15.7%	31^st
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	216	66	30.6%	75^th
1879 Mar-Jul	180	107	59.4%	75^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	47	11	23.4%	55^th
1880 Mar-May	116	29	25.0%	40^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	16	41.0%	53^rd
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	161	36	22.4%	55^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	90	49	54.4%	89^th
1882 Apr-Jul	199	62	31.2%	61^st
1882 Aug-Aug	36	15	41.7%	78^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	369	260	70.5%	96^th
1881 Mar-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1881 Oct-Oct	57	48	84.2%	82^nd
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	60	10	16.7%	34^th
1884 Mar-May	107	46	43.0%	69^th
1884 Jun-Jul	74	27	36.5%	59^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	162	73	45.1%	72^nd
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	61	24	39.3%	78^th
1886 Apr-Jul	214	64	29.9%	60^th
1886 Aug-Aug	10	2	20.0%	45^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	132	55	41.7%	80^th
1885 Mar-Apr	4	1	25.0%	67^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	49	18	36.7%	61^st
1888 Mar-May	55	28	50.9%	69^th
1888 Jun-Aug	54	41	75.9%	88^th
1888 Sep-Oct	13	11	84.6%	78^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	184	101	54.9%	84^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	26	14	53.8%	75^th
1890 Mar-May	103	64	62.1%	89^th
1890 Jun-Aug	144	72	50.0%	71^st
1890 Sep-Sep	77	28	36.4%	62^nd
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	132	87	65.9%	88^th
1889 Mar-Apr	8	3	37.5%	62^nd
1892 Jan-Mar	20	11	55.0%	78^th
1892 Apr-Jul	70	30	42.9%	59^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	98	36	36.7%	55^th
1893 Aug-Oct	70	26	37.1%	56^th
1894 Jan-Mar	30	10	33.3%	58^th
1894 Apr-Jul	302	201	66.6%	90^th
1894 Aug-Aug	18	14	77.8%	85^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	98	34	34.7%	48^th
1893 Apr-Apr	4	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