Chauncey Depew, former Senator for New York

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Depew was a senator from New York and was a Republican. He served from 1905 to 1911.

He was previously a senator from New York as a Republican from 1899 to 1905.

Photo of Sen. Chauncey Depew [R-NY, 1905-1911]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1899 to Mar 1911, Depew missed 434 of 854 roll call votes, which is 50.8%. This is much worse than the median of 26.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1911. 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 1899-Feb 1900	20	5	25.0%	55^th
1900 Mar-May	57	32	56.1%	67^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	7	58.3%	90^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	80	52	65.0%	94^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	22	84.6%	95^th
1902 Mar-May	49	19	38.8%	78^th
1902 Jun-Jun	23	23	100.0%	97^th
1903 Jan-Mar	18	5	27.8%	35^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	65^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	26	72.2%	93^rd
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	22	39.3%	78^th
1906 Jan-Feb	8	6	75.0%	91^st
1906 Mar-May	49	49	100.0%	98^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	31	100.0%	96^th
1907 Jan-Mar	38	11	28.9%	53^rd
1908 Mar-May	49	23	46.9%	66^th
1909 Jan-Mar	35	13	37.1%	69^th
1909 Apr-Aug	130	34	26.2%	63^rd
1910 Jan-Feb	7	1	14.3%	10^th
1910 Mar-May	36	14	38.9%	66^th
1910 Jun-Jun	41	6	14.6%	28^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	52	32	61.5%	92^nd

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

Sen. Chauncey Depew

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Missed Votes

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