Zebulon Vance, former Senator from North Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1891-1895	Senator	North Carolina
1885-1891	Senator	North Carolina
1879-1885	Senator	North Carolina
1859-1861	Representative	North Carolina's 8^th District
1857-1859	Representative	North Carolina's 8^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1879 to Apr 1894, Vance missed 1,104 of 3,302 roll call votes, which is 33.4%. This is worse than the median of 31.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Apr 1894. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1879 Mar-Jul	191	18	9.4%	10^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	45	18	40.0%	80^th
1880 Mar-May	121	33	27.3%	45^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	21	53.8%	68^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	24	14.6%	20^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	88	15	17.0%	43^rd
1882 Apr-Jul	192	59	30.7%	57^th
1882 Aug-Aug	36	35	97.2%	93^rd
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	380	89	23.4%	44^th
1881 Mar-Mar	11	2	18.2%	93^rd
1881 Oct-Oct	59	49	83.1%	79^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	63	23	36.5%	66^th
1884 Mar-May	105	55	52.4%	84^th
1884 Jun-Jul	77	14	18.2%	28^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	161	37	23.0%	50^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	56	22	39.3%	75^th
1886 Apr-Jul	217	64	29.5%	55^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	6	50.0%	63^rd
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	132	24	18.2%	40^th
1885 Mar-Apr	5	2	40.0%	82^nd
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	47	16	34.0%	59^th
1888 Mar-May	62	19	30.6%	57^th
1888 Jun-Aug	57	34	59.6%	73^rd
1888 Sep-Oct	12	10	83.3%	76^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	183	40	21.9%	35^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	28	13	46.4%	67^th
1890 Mar-May	105	47	44.8%	68^th
1890 Jun-Aug	129	42	32.6%	36^th
1890 Sep-Sep	76	19	25.0%	48^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	132	54	40.9%	68^th
1889 Mar-Apr	5	4	80.0%	85^th
1892 Jan-Mar	20	4	20.0%	25^th
1892 Apr-Jul	72	72	100.0%	99^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	97	38	39.2%	60^th
1893 Aug-Oct	68	31	45.6%	74^th
1894 Jan-Mar	27	27	100.0%	98^th
1894 Apr-Jul	23	22	95.7%	94^th
1893 Apr-Apr	5	2	40.0%	56^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