Samuel Houston, former Senator from Texas

Dates	Title	Representing
1853-1859	Senator	Texas
1846-1853	Senator	Texas
1825-1827	Representative	Tennessee's 7^th District
1823-1825	Representative	Tennessee's 7^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1846 to Mar 1859, Houston missed 841 of 3,226 roll call votes, which is 26.1%. This is worse than the median of 25.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1859. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	2	1	50.0%	90^th
1846 Apr-Jul	167	12	7.2%	0^th
1846 Aug-Aug	50	6	12.0%	25^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	126	10	7.9%	10^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	82	56	68.3%	87^th
1848 Apr-Jul	116	34	29.3%	61^st
1848 Aug-Aug	66	4	6.1%	0^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	80	8	10.0%	0^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	22	3	13.6%	24^th
1850 Mar-May	64	45	70.3%	94^th
1850 Jun-Aug	154	17	11.0%	24^th
1850 Sep-Sep	108	21	19.4%	44^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	141	51	36.2%	67^th
1849 Mar-Mar	10	8	80.0%	89^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	38	25	65.8%	82^nd
1852 Apr-Jul	80	38	47.5%	81^st
1852 Aug-Aug	91	21	23.1%	38^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	124	18	14.5%	14^th
1851 Mar-Mar	22	12	54.5%	78^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	50	28	56.0%	85^th
1854 Apr-Jul	229	111	48.5%	83^rd
1854 Aug-Aug	64	5	7.8%	6^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	178	88	49.4%	89^th
1853 Mar-Apr	22	6	27.3%	46^th
1856 Jan-Mar	32	7	21.9%	34^th
1856 Apr-Jul	131	63	48.1%	72^nd
1856 Aug-Aug	124	23	18.5%	38^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	1	6.3%	13^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	16	11.1%	24^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	10	17.5%	45^th
1858 Mar-May	216	28	13.0%	19^th
1858 Jun-Jun	116	6	5.2%	2^nd
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	266	57	21.4%	45^th
1857 Mar-Mar	29	1	3.4%	5^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	1	11.1%	27^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