Stephen Adams, former Senator from Mississippi

Dates	Title	Representing
1852-1857	Senator	Mississippi
1845-1847	Representative	Mississippi

Voting Record

From Mar 1852 to Mar 1857, Adams missed 377 of 1,293 roll call votes, which is 29.2%. This is worse than the median of 27.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1857. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1852 Apr-Jul	80	18	22.5%	26^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	27	29.7%	68^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	124	37	29.8%	63^rd
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	50	4	8.0%	7^th
1854 Apr-Jul	229	72	31.4%	65^th
1854 Aug-Aug	64	24	37.5%	67^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	178	46	25.8%	45^th
1853 Mar-Apr	22	9	40.9%	54^th
1856 Jan-Mar	32	2	6.3%	3^rd
1856 Apr-Jul	131	56	42.7%	64^th
1856 Aug-Aug	124	40	32.3%	63^rd
1856 Aug-Aug	16	3	18.8%	51^st
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	39	27.1%	52^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