Thomas Clingman, former Senator from North Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1858-1861	Senator	North Carolina
1855-1857	Representative	North Carolina's 8^th District
1853-1855	Representative	North Carolina's 8^th District
1851-1853	Representative	North Carolina's 1^st District
1849-1851	Representative	North Carolina's 1^st District
1847-1849	Representative	North Carolina's 1^st District
1843-1845	Representative	North Carolina's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Jan 1858 to Mar 1861, Clingman missed 221 of 1,064 roll call votes, which is 20.8%. This is better than the median of 21.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1861. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	2	0	0.0%	0^th
1858 Mar-May	73	11	15.1%	30^th
1858 Jun-Jun	116	15	12.9%	12^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	267	37	13.9%	15^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	7	16.3%	46^th
1860 Mar-May	157	20	12.7%	9^th
1860 Jun-Jun	131	64	48.9%	85^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	229	66	28.8%	63^rd
1859 Mar-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1860 Jun-Jun	5	1	20.0%	38^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