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 1,459 of 2,941 roll call votes, which is 49.6%. This is worse than the median of 27.6% 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	34	14	41.2%	83^rd
1896 Mar-May	54	44	81.5%	83^rd
1896 Jun-Jun	24	18	75.0%	67^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	68	34	50.0%	67^th
1897 Mar-Jul	186	92	49.5%	50^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	25	3	12.0%	25^th
1898 Mar-May	45	11	24.4%	25^th
1898 Jun-Jul	49	19	38.8%	38^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	44	13	29.5%	50^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	19	1	5.3%	0^th
1900 Mar-May	51	13	25.5%	36^th
1900 Jun-Jun	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	74	14	18.9%	27^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	25	13	52.0%	83^rd
1902 Mar-May	49	28	57.1%	83^rd
1902 Jun-Jun	22	10	45.5%	92^nd
1903 Jan-Mar	16	4	25.0%	25^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	67^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	33	21	63.6%	87^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	54	41	75.9%	88^th
1906 Jan-Feb	8	4	50.0%	78^th
1906 Mar-May	49	9	18.4%	67^th
1906 Jun-Jun	28	11	39.3%	61^st
1907 Jan-Mar	37	7	18.9%	43^rd
1908 Mar-May	46	46	100.0%	92^nd
1909 Jan-Mar	32	18	56.3%	93^rd
1909 Apr-Aug	120	47	39.2%	87^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	1	14.3%	10^th
1910 Mar-May	35	35	100.0%	93^rd
1910 Jun-Jun	41	41	100.0%	83^rd
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	49	28	57.1%	94^th
1911 May-Aug	91	91	100.0%	98^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	34	21	61.8%	90^th
1912 Apr-Jul	100	43	43.0%	73^rd
1912 Aug-Aug	50	17	34.0%	71^st
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	108	62	57.4%	94^th
1913 Apr-Jul	38	8	21.1%	57^th
1913 Aug-Nov	102	50	49.0%	82^nd
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	56	21	37.5%	82^nd
1914 Mar-May	55	13	23.6%	40^th
1914 Jun-Aug	117	68	58.1%	78^th
1914 Sep-Oct	64	64	100.0%	94^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	116	58	50.0%	78^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	1	20.0%	36^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	38	13	34.2%	74^th
1916 Mar-May	102	24	23.5%	45^th
1916 Jun-Aug	85	29	34.1%	61^st
1916 Sep-Sep	13	13	100.0%	87^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	157	47	29.9%	56^th
1917 Apr-Jun	56	55	98.2%	96^th
1917 Jul-Sep	99	64	64.6%	92^nd
1917 Oct-Oct	9	9	100.0%	80^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

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