Samuel McMillan, former Senator from Minnesota

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

Voting Record

From Mar 1875 to Mar 1887, McMillan missed 616 of 3,165 roll call votes, which is 19.5%. 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	5	5.7%	0^th
1876 Apr-Jul	181	84	46.4%	81^st
1876 Aug-Aug	51	4	7.8%	0^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	80	22	27.5%	53^rd
1875 Mar-Mar	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1877 Oct-Dec	71	3	4.2%	16^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	67	7	10.4%	8^th
1878 Mar-May	105	16	15.2%	20^th
1878 Jun-Jun	79	12	15.2%	16^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	228	45	19.7%	32^nd
1877 Mar-Mar	15	1	6.7%	14^th
1879 Mar-Jul	165	43	26.1%	47^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	45	8	17.8%	23^rd
1880 Mar-May	125	17	13.6%	23^rd
1880 Jun-Jun	39	2	5.1%	3^rd
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	161	34	21.1%	34^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	94	15	16.0%	39^th
1882 Apr-Jul	199	48	24.1%	37^th
1882 Aug-Aug	37	6	16.2%	44^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	386	85	22.0%	28^th
1881 Mar-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1881 Oct-Oct	61	2	3.3%	2^nd
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	64	13	20.3%	32^nd
1884 Mar-May	111	29	26.1%	39^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	15	19.2%	34^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	165	32	19.4%	30^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	62	5	8.1%	12^th
1886 Apr-Jul	217	24	11.1%	17^th
1886 Aug-Aug	10	1	10.0%	29^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	140	37	26.4%	49^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