Thomas Rusk, former Senator from Texas

Dates	Title	Representing
1851-1857	Senator	Texas
1846-1851	Senator	Texas

Voting Record

From Mar 1846 to Mar 1857, Rusk missed 653 of 2,533 roll call votes, which is 25.8%. This is better 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 1845-Mar 1846	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1846 Apr-Jul	167	17	10.2%	13^th
1846 Aug-Aug	50	12	24.0%	50^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	126	45	35.7%	90^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	82	15	18.3%	40^th
1848 Apr-Jul	116	21	18.1%	21^st
1848 Aug-Aug	66	45	68.2%	81^st
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	80	10	12.5%	18^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	22	1	4.5%	6^th
1850 Mar-May	64	7	10.9%	28^th
1850 Jun-Aug	154	16	10.4%	11^th
1850 Sep-Sep	108	19	17.6%	37^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	141	26	18.4%	26^th
1849 Mar-Mar	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	38	15	39.5%	58^th
1852 Apr-Jul	79	4	5.1%	6^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	24	26.4%	48^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	124	7	5.6%	6^th
1851 Mar-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	50	18	36.0%	60^th
1854 Apr-Jul	229	23	10.0%	9^th
1854 Aug-Aug	64	12	18.8%	29^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	177	23	13.0%	15^th
1853 Mar-Apr	22	9	40.9%	54^th
1856 Jan-Mar	32	4	12.5%	12^th
1856 Apr-Jul	131	125	95.4%	98^th
1856 Aug-Aug	124	124	100.0%	97^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	16	100.0%	80^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	15	10.4%	16^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