Benjamin Tillman, former U.S. Senator for South Carolina

Dates	Title	State / District
1907-1919	Senator	South Carolina
1901-1907	Senator	South Carolina
1895-1901	Senator	South Carolina

Voting Record

From Dec 1895 to Jul 1918, Tillman missed 1,469 of 3,085 roll call votes, which is 47.6%. This is worse than the median of 27.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 1918. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	36	14	38.9%	83^rd
1896 Mar-May	66	45	68.2%	83^rd
1896 Jun-Jun	24	18	75.0%	67^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	71	34	47.9%	67^th
1897 Mar-Jul	200	92	46.0%	50^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	25	3	12.0%	25^th
1898 Mar-May	51	11	21.6%	13^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	19	35.8%	38^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	51	13	25.5%	50^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	1	5.0%	0^th
1900 Mar-May	57	13	22.8%	18^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	80	14	17.5%	27^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	13	50.0%	83^rd
1902 Mar-May	49	28	57.1%	92^nd
1902 Jun-Jun	23	10	43.5%	83^rd
1903 Jan-Mar	18	4	22.2%	17^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	67^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	21	58.3%	87^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	41	73.2%	88^th
1906 Jan-Feb	8	4	50.0%	78^th
1906 Mar-May	49	9	18.4%	67^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	11	35.5%	50^th
1907 Jan-Mar	38	7	18.4%	33^rd
1908 Mar-May	49	46	93.9%	92^nd
1909 Jan-Mar	35	19	54.3%	81^st
1909 Apr-Aug	130	48	36.9%	87^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	1	14.3%	10^th
1910 Mar-May	36	35	97.2%	93^rd
1910 Jun-Jun	41	41	100.0%	93^rd
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	50	28	56.0%	94^th
1911 May-Aug	94	91	96.8%	98^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	34	21	61.8%	93^rd
1912 Apr-Jul	103	44	42.7%	71^st
1912 Aug-Aug	51	17	33.3%	71^st
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	110	63	57.3%	94^th
1913 Apr-Jul	38	8	21.1%	57^th
1913 Aug-Nov	109	50	45.9%	81^st
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	59	21	35.6%	84^th
1914 Mar-May	58	13	22.4%	34^th
1914 Jun-Aug	121	69	57.0%	78^th
1914 Sep-Oct	64	64	100.0%	97^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	58	49.6%	79^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	1	20.0%	36^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	40	13	32.5%	74^th
1916 Mar-May	106	25	23.6%	45^th
1916 Jun-Aug	88	30	34.1%	68^th
1916 Sep-Sep	13	13	100.0%	92^nd
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	159	47	29.6%	56^th
1917 Apr-Jun	61	56	91.8%	95^th
1917 Jul-Sep	103	64	62.1%	92^nd
1917 Oct-Oct	11	10	90.9%	79^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	17	50.0%	80^th
1918 Mar-May	54	17	31.5%	47^th
1918 Jun-Aug	22	13	59.1%	88^th
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^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