Edward Wolcott, former Senator for Colorado

Wolcott was a senator from Colorado and was a Republican. He served from 1895 to 1901.

He was previously a senator from Colorado as a Republican from 1889 to 1895.

Photo of Sen. Edward Wolcott [R-CO, 1895-1901]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1889 to Mar 1901, Wolcott missed 1,347 of 2,035 roll call votes, which is 66.2%. This is much worse than the median of 34.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1901. 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 1889-Feb 1890	31	18	58.1%	80^th
1890 Mar-May	114	88	77.2%	96^th
1890 Jun-Aug	150	125	83.3%	81^st
1890 Sep-Sep	79	27	34.2%	65^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	62	43.4%	78^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	6	66.7%	78^th
1892 Jan-Mar	26	16	61.5%	87^th
1892 Apr-Jul	78	26	33.3%	47^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	105	39	37.1%	53^rd
1893 Aug-Oct	77	39	50.6%	74^th
1894 Jan-Mar	35	25	71.4%	91^st
1894 Apr-Jul	321	316	98.4%	97^th
1894 Aug-Aug	21	21	100.0%	91^st
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	101	30	29.7%	49^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	6	100.0%	64^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	28	21	75.0%	98^th
1896 Mar-May	66	39	59.1%	83^rd
1896 Jun-Jun	24	12	50.0%	56^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	71	67	94.4%	98^th
1897 Mar-Jul	200	192	96.0%	99^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	26	13	50.0%	81^st
1898 Mar-May	51	22	43.1%	80^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	17	32.1%	62^nd
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	51	32	62.7%	93^rd
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	6	30.0%	59^th
1900 Mar-May	57	30	52.6%	62^nd
1900 Jun-Jun	12	4	33.3%	56^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	80	48	60.0%	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

Sen. Edward Wolcott

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Missed Votes

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