Elections and Offices
Sen. Stephen Dorsey [R-AR, 1873-1879] leaves office as Senator from Arkansas
Mar 03, 1879Sen. Stephen Dorsey
Former Senator from Arkansas
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Senator | Arkansas |
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Voting Record
From Mar 1873 to Mar 1879, Dorsey missed 658 of 1,392 roll call votes, which is 47.3%. This is worse than the median of 29.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1879. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
Recent Legislative Activity
Elections and Offices
Sen. Stephen Dorsey [R-AR, 1873-1879] takes office as Senator from Arkansas
Dec 01, 1873