Durkee was a senator from Wisconsin and was a Republican. He served from 1855 to 1861.
He was previously the representative for Wisconsin’s 1st congressional district as a Free Soil from 1851 to 1853; and the representative for Wisconsin’s 1st congressional district as a Free Soil from 1849 to 1851.
![Photo of Sen. Charles Durkee [R-WI, 1855-1861]](/static/legislator-photos/403676-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1856 to Mar 1861, Durkee missed 580 of 1,758 roll call votes, which is 33.0%. This is worse than the median of 21.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1861. 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
