Shelby Cullom, former Senator from Illinois

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1913	Senator	Illinois
1901-1907	Senator	Illinois
1895-1901	Senator	Illinois
1889-1895	Senator	Illinois
1883-1889	Senator	Illinois
1865-1871	Representative	Illinois's 8^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1883 to Mar 1913, Cullom missed 923 of 4,154 roll call votes, which is 22.2%. This is better than the median of 26.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1913. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	7	10.8%	0^th
1884 Mar-May	113	30	26.5%	50^th
1884 Jun-Jul	75	39	52.0%	50^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	167	26	15.6%	0^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	62	6	9.7%	0^th
1886 Apr-Jul	225	33	14.7%	0^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	2	16.7%	0^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	138	15	10.9%	0^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	2	22.2%	50^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	48	8	16.7%	0^th
1888 Mar-May	63	4	6.3%	0^th
1888 Jun-Aug	58	13	22.4%	0^th
1888 Sep-Oct	13	2	15.4%	0^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	182	26	14.3%	0^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	25	9	36.0%	50^th
1890 Mar-May	108	11	10.2%	0^th
1890 Jun-Aug	145	14	9.7%	0^th
1890 Sep-Sep	75	11	14.7%	50^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	135	42	31.1%	67^th
1889 Mar-Apr	8	1	12.5%	50^th
1892 Jan-Mar	20	5	25.0%	50^th
1892 Apr-Jul	75	11	14.7%	0^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	102	42	41.2%	50^th
1893 Aug-Oct	72	6	8.3%	20^th
1894 Jan-Mar	28	5	17.9%	20^th
1894 Apr-Jul	283	114	40.3%	80^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	4	20.0%	40^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	96	44	45.8%	83^rd
1893 Apr-Apr	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	33	16	48.5%	92^nd
1896 Mar-May	64	12	18.8%	33^rd
1896 Jun-Jun	20	6	30.0%	42^nd
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	67	10	14.9%	8^th
1897 Mar-Jul	194	68	35.1%	46^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	22	4	18.2%	54^th
1898 Mar-May	47	3	6.4%	0^th
1898 Jun-Jul	49	3	6.1%	23^rd
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	46	9	19.6%	38^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	19	1	5.3%	7^th
1900 Mar-May	50	24	48.0%	75^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	78	25	32.1%	82^nd
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1902 Mar-May	49	2	4.1%	14^th
1902 Jun-Jun	23	3	13.0%	50^th
1903 Jan-Mar	18	3	16.7%	9^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	2	5.6%	4^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	4	7.1%	10^th
1906 Jan-Feb	8	8	100.0%	94^th
1906 Mar-May	49	5	10.2%	26^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	9	29.0%	35^th
1907 Jan-Mar	35	6	17.1%	30^th
1908 Mar-May	43	12	27.9%	48^th
1909 Jan-Mar	33	3	9.1%	16^th
1909 Apr-Aug	120	21	17.5%	57^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	3	42.9%	57^th
1910 Mar-May	36	4	11.1%	28^th
1910 Jun-Jun	41	2	4.9%	15^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	50	11	22.0%	47^th
1911 May-Aug	81	13	16.0%	45^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	30	9	30.0%	67^th
1912 Apr-Jul	95	33	34.7%	55^th
1912 Aug-Aug	50	7	14.0%	31^st
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	107	50	46.7%	74^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