Oliver Morton, former Senator from Indiana

Dates	Title	Representing
1873-1877	Senator	Indiana
1867-1873	Senator	Indiana

Voting Record

From Mar 1867 to Oct 1877, Morton missed 1,243 of 3,026 roll call votes, which is 41.1%. This is worse than the median of 29.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1877. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1867 Mar-Apr	98	15	15.3%	30^th
1867 Jul-Jul	33	33	100.0%	78^th
1867 Nov-Nov	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	54	18	33.3%	80^th
1868 Mar-May	178	64	36.0%	90^th
1868 Jun-Jul	185	107	57.8%	85^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	153	42	27.5%	38^th
1869 Mar-Apr	58	18	31.0%	67^th
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	80	22	27.5%	81^st
1870 Mar-May	166	50	30.1%	50^th
1870 Jun-Jul	201	90	44.8%	75^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	193	122	63.2%	82^nd
1869 Apr-Apr	25	10	40.0%	60^th
1871 Mar-Apr	60	13	21.7%	68^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	78	21	26.9%	63^rd
1872 Mar-May	335	109	32.5%	35^th
1872 Jun-Jun	92	64	69.6%	85^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	192	88	45.8%	85^th
1871 May-May	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	57	10	17.5%	35^th
1874 Mar-May	107	46	43.0%	79^th
1874 Jun-Jun	79	50	63.3%	88^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	137	44	32.1%	66^th
1873 Mar-Mar	16	4	25.0%	29^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	86	26	30.2%	61^st
1876 Apr-Jul	177	101	57.1%	76^th
1876 Aug-Aug	50	33	66.0%	81^st
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	78	35	44.9%	81^st
1875 Mar-Mar	20	4	20.0%	60^th
1877 Oct-Dec	2	2	100.0%	96^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	2	13.3%	22^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