Sen. Edward Carmack

Former Senator for Tennessee

Carmack was a senator from Tennessee and was a Democrat. He served from 1901 to 1907.

He was previously the representative for Tennessee’s 10^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1899 to 1901; and the representative for Tennessee’s 10^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1897 to 1899.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Edward Carmack [D-TN, 1901-1907]

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1901 to Mar 1907, Carmack missed 119 of 335 roll call votes, which is 35.5%. This is on par with the median of 29.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1907. 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
1897 Mar-Jul (House)	38	16	42.1%	71^st
Dec 1897-Feb 1898 (House)	29	17	58.6%	91^st
1898 Mar-May (House)	53	25	47.2%	89^th
1898 Jun-Jul (House)	26	15	57.7%	82^nd
Dec 1898-Mar 1899 (House)	37	10	27.0%	45^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900 (House)	21	7	33.3%	54^th
1900 Mar-May (House)	49	31	63.3%	96^th
1900 Jun-Jun (House)	17	14	82.4%	94^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901 (House)	62	22	35.5%	63^rd
Dec 1901-Feb 1902 (Senate)	26	4	15.4%	39^th
1902 Mar-May (Senate)	49	5	10.2%	30^th
1902 Jun-Jun (Senate)	23	2	8.7%	33^rd
1903 Jan-Mar (Senate)	18	2	11.1%	5^th
1901 Mar-Mar (Senate)	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904 (Senate)	36	13	36.1%	47^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905 (Senate)	56	8	14.3%	28^th
1906 Jan-Feb (Senate)	8	8	100.0%	92^nd
1906 Mar-May (Senate)	49	38	77.6%	93^rd
1906 Jun-Jun (Senate)	31	19	61.3%	73^rd
1907 Jan-Mar (Senate)	38	20	52.6%	81^st

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. Edward Carmack

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources