Orris Ferry, former Senator from Connecticut

Dates	Title	Representing
1873-1875	Senator	Connecticut
1867-1873	Senator	Connecticut
1859-1861	Representative	Connecticut's 4^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1867 to Mar 1875, Ferry missed 1,476 of 2,636 roll call votes, which is 56.0%. This is worse than the median of 30.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1875. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1867 Mar-Apr	98	34	34.7%	69^th
1867 Jul-Jul	33	30	90.9%	75^th
1867 Nov-Nov	4	4	100.0%	75^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	54	12	22.2%	62^nd
1868 Mar-May	180	25	13.9%	54^th
1868 Jun-Jul	186	60	32.3%	38^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	1	100.0%	69^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	155	30	19.4%	19^th
1869 Mar-Apr	58	29	50.0%	94^th
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	81	21	25.9%	68^th
1870 Mar-May	167	64	38.3%	68^th
1870 Jun-Jul	202	156	77.2%	95^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	193	190	98.4%	90^th
1869 Apr-Apr	25	25	100.0%	88^th
1871 Mar-Apr	60	58	96.7%	97^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	79	48	60.8%	88^th
1872 Mar-May	333	177	53.2%	91^st
1872 Jun-Jun	93	87	93.5%	94^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	191	91	47.6%	89^th
1871 May-May	16	6	37.5%	68^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	55	21	38.2%	83^rd
1874 Mar-May	109	90	82.6%	98^th
1874 Jun-Jun	81	81	100.0%	98^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	147	119	81.0%	98^th
1873 Mar-Mar	16	1	6.3%	8^th
1875 Mar-Mar	19	16	84.2%	95^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