Edwin Morgan, former Senator for New York

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Morgan was a senator from New York and was a Republican. He served from 1863 to 1869.

Photo of Sen. Edwin Morgan [R-NY, 1863-1869]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1863 to Mar 1869, Morgan missed 116 of 1,814 roll call votes, which is 6.4%. This is better than the median of 23.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1869. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	69	2	2.9%	13^th
1864 Mar-May	167	2	1.2%	0^th
1864 Jun-Jul	181	11	6.1%	3^rd
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	161	9	5.6%	3^rd
1863 Mar-Mar	19	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	39	1	2.6%	10^th
1866 Mar-May	102	4	3.9%	5^th
1866 Jun-Jul	137	5	3.6%	2^nd
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	217	20	9.2%	10^th
1865 Mar-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1867 Mar-Apr	98	6	6.1%	4^th
1867 Jul-Jul	35	8	22.9%	51^st
1867 Nov-Nov	4	3	75.0%	68^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	55	5	9.1%	11^th
1868 Mar-May	180	4	2.2%	0^th
1868 Jun-Jul	187	14	7.5%	3^rd
1868 Sep-Sep	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	156	22	14.1%	13^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

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Sen. Edwin Morgan

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Missed Votes

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