Salmon Chase, former Senator from Ohio

Dates	Title	Representing
1861-1861	Senator	Ohio
1849-1855	Senator	Ohio

Voting Record

From Mar 1849 to Mar 1861, Chase missed 229 of 1,399 roll call votes, which is 16.4%. This is better than the median of 20.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1861. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	22	4	18.2%	33^rd
1850 Mar-May	64	0	0.0%	0^th
1850 Jun-Aug	154	29	18.8%	44^th
1850 Sep-Sep	108	22	20.4%	13^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	141	15	10.6%	0^th
1849 Mar-Mar	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	38	12	31.6%	42^nd
1852 Apr-Jul	80	29	36.3%	50^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	17	18.7%	25^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	124	11	8.9%	8^th
1851 Mar-Mar	22	6	27.3%	33^rd
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	50	15	30.0%	46^th
1854 Apr-Jul	229	29	12.7%	8^th
1854 Aug-Aug	64	4	6.3%	0^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	178	31	17.4%	21^st
1853 Mar-Apr	22	3	13.6%	17^th
1861 Mar-Mar	2	2	100.0%	88^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