Milton Latham, former Senator from California

Dates	Title	Representing
1860-1863	Senator	California
1853-1855	Representative	California

Voting Record

From Mar 1860 to Mar 1863, Latham missed 348 of 1,309 roll call votes, which is 26.6%. This is worse than the median of 20.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1863. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1860 Mar-May	154	32	20.8%	40^th
1860 Jun-Jun	131	27	20.6%	38^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	226	13	5.8%	7^th
1860 Jun-Jun	5	5	100.0%	81^st
1861 Jul-Aug	78	18	23.1%	61^st
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	73	6	8.2%	29^th
1862 Mar-May	146	33	22.6%	63^rd
1862 Jun-Jul	213	108	50.7%	86^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	241	84	34.9%	77^th
1861 Mar-Mar	42	22	52.4%	72^nd

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