Samuel Maxey, former Senator from Texas

Dates	Title	Representing
1881-1887	Senator	Texas
1875-1881	Senator	Texas

Voting Record

From Mar 1875 to Mar 1887, Maxey missed 470 of 3,173 roll call votes, which is 14.8%. This is better than the median of 28.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1887. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	87	17	19.5%	35^th
1876 Apr-Jul	180	29	16.1%	19^th
1876 Aug-Aug	51	6	11.8%	25^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	80	8	10.0%	6^th
1875 Mar-Mar	20	1	5.0%	6^th
1877 Oct-Dec	53	47	88.7%	88^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	9	13.0%	24^th
1878 Mar-May	108	3	2.8%	0^th
1878 Jun-Jun	83	13	15.7%	24^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	230	28	12.2%	12^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	3	20.0%	41^st
1879 Mar-Jul	191	8	4.2%	0^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	1	2.0%	0^th
1880 Mar-May	125	26	20.8%	39^th
1880 Jun-Jun	35	4	11.4%	23^rd
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	159	59	37.1%	78^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	94	2	2.1%	2^nd
1882 Apr-Jul	208	10	4.8%	4^th
1882 Aug-Aug	36	5	13.9%	36^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	378	38	10.1%	4^th
1881 Mar-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1881 Oct-Oct	61	4	6.6%	8^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	61	8	13.1%	19^th
1884 Mar-May	111	22	19.8%	31^st
1884 Jun-Jul	78	8	10.3%	11^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	166	22	13.3%	16^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	60	5	8.3%	13^th
1886 Apr-Jul	229	25	10.9%	15^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	1	8.3%	12^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	122	57	46.7%	75^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	1	11.1%	28^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