Simon Cameron, former Senator from Pennsylvania

Dates	Title	Representing
1873-1877	Senator	Pennsylvania
1867-1873	Senator	Pennsylvania
1857-1861	Senator	Pennsylvania
1845-1849	Senator	Pennsylvania

Voting Record

From Dec 1845 to Mar 1877, Cameron missed 2,394 of 5,034 roll call votes, which is 47.6%. This is worse than the median of 29.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1877. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	29	4	13.8%	0^th
1846 Apr-Jul	167	56	33.5%	0^th
1846 Aug-Aug	50	11	22.0%	0^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	126	26	20.6%	0^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	82	34	41.5%	0^th
1848 Apr-Jul	116	82	70.7%	50^th
1848 Aug-Aug	66	39	59.1%	50^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	80	36	45.0%	50^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	22	38.6%	50^th
1858 Mar-May	216	103	47.7%	75^th
1858 Jun-Jun	116	65	56.0%	50^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	267	99	37.1%	75^th
1857 Mar-Mar	29	5	17.2%	0^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	9	100.0%	0^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	23	53.5%	75^th
1860 Mar-May	158	89	56.3%	75^th
1860 Jun-Jun	131	63	48.1%	75^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	228	79	34.6%	50^th
1859 Mar-Mar	32	32	100.0%	75^th
1860 Jun-Jun	5	5	100.0%	50^th
1867 Mar-Apr	98	24	24.5%	50^th
1867 Jul-Jul	33	10	30.3%	56^th
1867 Nov-Nov	4	3	75.0%	67^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	54	11	20.4%	50^th
1868 Mar-May	180	38	21.1%	80^th
1868 Jun-Jul	187	83	44.4%	54^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	153	56	36.6%	69^th
1869 Mar-Apr	58	24	41.4%	93^rd
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	79	25	31.6%	88^th
1870 Mar-May	164	82	50.0%	88^th
1870 Jun-Jul	201	105	52.2%	88^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	192	132	68.8%	88^th
1869 Apr-Apr	25	14	56.0%	73^rd
1871 Mar-Apr	59	24	40.7%	89^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	79	35	44.3%	84^th
1872 Mar-May	333	160	48.0%	85^th
1872 Jun-Jun	92	73	79.3%	90^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	191	123	64.4%	90^th
1871 May-May	16	13	81.3%	84^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	56	18	32.1%	68^th
1874 Mar-May	109	72	66.1%	94^th
1874 Jun-Jun	80	72	90.0%	94^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	146	67	45.9%	89^th
1873 Mar-Mar	16	4	25.0%	29^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	85	37	43.5%	75^th
1876 Apr-Jul	183	126	68.9%	89^th
1876 Aug-Aug	51	41	80.4%	89^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	78	30	38.5%	74^th
1875 Mar-Mar	13	8	61.5%	85^th
1877 Mar-Mar	11	2	18.2%	42^nd

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