Nathan Dixon, former Senator from Rhode Island

Dates	Title	Representing
1889-1895	Senator	Rhode Island
1883-1885	Representative	Rhode Island's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1889 to Mar 1895, Dixon missed 509 of 1,220 roll call votes, which is 41.7%. 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
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	28	6	21.4%	35^th
1890 Mar-May	106	40	37.7%	56^th
1890 Jun-Aug	139	24	17.3%	14^th
1890 Sep-Sep	76	11	14.5%	24^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	140	34	24.3%	27^th
1892 Jan-Mar	26	13	50.0%	70^th
1892 Apr-Jul	77	33	42.9%	59^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	102	72	70.6%	88^th
1893 Aug-Oct	72	13	18.1%	31^st
1894 Jan-Mar	27	16	59.3%	88^th
1894 Apr-Jul	306	168	54.9%	79^th
1894 Aug-Aug	21	17	81.0%	87^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	94	56	59.6%	84^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	6	100.0%	78^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