Sen. Blanche Bruce

Former Senator for Mississippi

Bruce was a senator from Mississippi and was a Republican. He served from 1875 to 1881.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Blanche Bruce [R-MS, 1875-1881]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1875 to Mar 1881, Bruce missed 851 of 1,588 roll call votes, which is 53.6%. This is much worse than the median of 29.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1881. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	89	40	44.9%	79^th
1876 Apr-Jul	186	106	57.0%	78^th
1876 Aug-Aug	51	32	62.7%	86^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	84	21	25.0%	45^th
1875 Mar-Mar	24	3	12.5%	36^th
1877 Oct-Dec	71	19	26.8%	72^nd
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	28	40.6%	86^th
1878 Mar-May	110	57	51.8%	90^th
1878 Jun-Jun	83	43	51.8%	79^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	236	107	45.3%	88^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	2	13.3%	20^th
1879 Mar-Jul	191	130	68.1%	84^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	35	71.4%	88^th
1880 Mar-May	127	88	69.3%	91^st
1880 Jun-Jun	39	35	89.7%	87^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	105	64.0%	87^th

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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources