Thomas Ferry, former Senator from Michigan

Dates	Title	Representing
1877-1883	Senator	Michigan
1871-1877	Senator	Michigan
1865-1871	Representative	Michigan's 4^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1871 to Mar 1883, Ferry missed 1,080 of 3,486 roll call votes, which is 31.0%. This is worse than the median of 28.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1883. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1871 Mar-Apr	60	3	5.0%	0^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	79	4	5.1%	0^th
1872 Mar-May	339	33	9.7%	0^th
1872 Jun-Jun	93	40	43.0%	64^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	191	28	14.7%	14^th
1871 May-May	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	55	6	10.9%	19^th
1874 Mar-May	109	32	29.4%	63^rd
1874 Jun-Jun	79	14	17.7%	25^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	143	24	16.8%	13^th
1873 Mar-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	86	12	14.0%	33^rd
1876 Apr-Jul	185	27	14.6%	13^th
1876 Aug-Aug	51	4	7.8%	4^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	80	16	20.0%	38^th
1875 Mar-Mar	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1877 Oct-Dec	61	59	96.7%	93^rd
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	68	7	10.3%	13^th
1878 Mar-May	108	26	24.1%	40^th
1878 Jun-Jun	82	16	19.5%	40^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	223	25	11.2%	10^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	15	100.0%	92^nd
1879 Mar-Jul	187	50	26.7%	51^st
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	46	9	19.6%	35^th
1880 Mar-May	116	38	32.8%	59^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	5	12.8%	25^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	159	50	31.4%	56^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	90	42	46.7%	78^th
1882 Apr-Jul	194	65	33.5%	60^th
1882 Aug-Aug	37	10	27.0%	58^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	389	372	95.6%	97^th
1881 Mar-Mar	13	2	15.4%	87^th
1881 Oct-Oct	57	46	80.7%	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