McLaurin was a senator from Mississippi and was a Democrat. He served from 1907 to 1909.
He was previously a senator from Mississippi as a Democrat from 1901 to 1907; and a senator from Mississippi as a Democrat from 1894 to 1895.
![Photo of Sen. Anselm McLaurin [D-MS, 1907-1909]](/static/legislator-photos/407534-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Feb 1894 to Aug 1909, McLaurin missed 353 of 1,010 roll call votes, which is 35.0%. This is worse than the median of 26.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1909. 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
