Elections and Offices
Sen. Thomas Robertson [R-SC, 1868-1877] leaves office as Senator from South Carolina
Mar 03, 1877Sen. Thomas Robertson
Former Senator from South Carolina
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Senator | South Carolina |
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Voting Record
From Jul 1868 to Mar 1877, Robertson missed 916 of 2,533 roll call votes, which is 36.2%. This is worse than the median of 30.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1877. 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. Thomas Robertson [R-SC, 1868-1877] takes office as Senator from South Carolina
Jan 01, 1868