Butler was a senator from South Carolina and was a Democrat. He served from 1855 to 1857.
He was previously a senator from South Carolina as a Democrat from 1849 to 1855; and a senator from South Carolina as a Democrat from 1846 to 1849.
![Photo of Sen. Andrew Butler [D-SC, 1855-1857]](/static/legislator-photos/402115-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1846 to Mar 1857, Butler missed 748 of 2,352 roll call votes, which is 31.8%. This is worse than the median of 25.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1857. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- 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
