Sen. Anthony Kennedy

Former Senator from Maryland, Unionist

Kennedy, a Unionist, was a senator from Maryland from 1857 to 1863.

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From Mar 1857 to Mar 1863, Kennedy missed 864 of 2,110 roll call votes, which is 40.9%. This is much worse than the median of 20.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1863. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	17	29.8%	73^rd
1858 Mar-May	217	75	34.6%	80^th
1858 Jun-Jun	121	38	31.4%	67^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	269	105	39.0%	77^th
1857 Mar-Mar	29	2	6.9%	15^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	13	30.2%	83^rd
1860 Mar-May	158	66	41.8%	81^st
1860 Jun-Jun	132	50	37.9%	71^st
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	232	75	32.3%	82^nd
1859 Mar-Mar	32	4	12.5%	53^rd
1860 Jun-Jun	10	5	50.0%	45^th
1861 Jul-Aug	79	38	48.1%	86^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	73	26	35.6%	79^th
1862 Mar-May	146	83	56.8%	90^th
1862 Jun-Jul	214	99	46.3%	84^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	247	137	55.5%	90^th
1861 Mar-Mar	42	31	73.8%	81^st

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

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