Newton Blanchard, former Senator from Louisiana

Dates	Title	Representing
1894-1897	Senator	Louisiana
1891-1893	Representative	Louisiana's 4^th District
1889-1891	Representative	Louisiana's 4^th District
1887-1889	Representative	Louisiana's 4^th District
1885-1887	Representative	Louisiana's 4^th District
1883-1885	Representative	Louisiana's 4^th District
1881-1883	Representative	Louisiana's 4^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1894 to Mar 1897, Blanchard missed 238 of 603 roll call votes, which is 39.5%. This is worse than the median of 32.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1897. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1894 Jan-Mar	10	4	40.0%	75^th
1894 Apr-Jul	299	74	24.7%	39^th
1894 Aug-Aug	21	8	38.1%	59^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	96	32	33.3%	49^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	33	17	51.5%	91^st
1896 Mar-May	60	53	88.3%	97^th
1896 Jun-Jun	22	18	81.8%	75^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	32	51.6%	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