Voorhees was a senator from Indiana and was a Democrat. He served from 1891 to 1897.
He was previously a senator from Indiana as a Democrat from 1885 to 1891; a senator from Indiana as a Democrat from 1877 to 1885; the representative for Indiana’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1869 to 1873; the representative for Indiana’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1865 to 1867; the representative for Indiana’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1863 to 1865; and the representative for Indiana’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1861 to 1863.
![Photo of Sen. Daniel Voorhees [D-IN, 1891-1897]](/static/legislator-photos/411170-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Nov 1877 to Mar 1897, Voorhees missed 2,005 of 4,894 roll call votes, which is 41.0%. This is on par with the median of 35.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1897. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
