Sen. Francis Cockrell

Former Senator for Missouri

Cockrell was a senator from Missouri and was a Democrat. He served from 1899 to 1905.

He was previously a senator from Missouri as a Democrat from 1893 to 1899; a senator from Missouri as a Democrat from 1887 to 1893; a senator from Missouri as a Democrat from 1881 to 1887; and a senator from Missouri as a Democrat from 1875 to 1881.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Francis Cockrell [D-MO, 1899-1905]

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Legislators who enslaved Black people

Cockrell was among more than 1,800 legislators who enslaved Black people. The Washington Post compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents. Cockrell was one of them.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1875 to Mar 1905, Cockrell missed 1,651 of 6,104 roll call votes, which is 27.0%. This is on par with the median of 29.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1905. 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	89	12	13.5%	25^th
1876 Apr-Jul	186	18	9.7%	0^th
1876 Aug-Aug	51	4	7.8%	0^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	84	22	26.2%	75^th
1875 Mar-Mar	24	3	12.5%	0^th
1877 Oct-Dec	71	7	9.9%	33^rd
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	26	37.7%	83^rd
1878 Mar-May	110	31	28.2%	50^th
1878 Jun-Jun	83	25	30.1%	67^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	236	55	23.3%	17^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	6	40.0%	67^th
1879 Mar-Jul	191	62	32.5%	50^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	11	22.4%	50^th
1880 Mar-May	127	19	15.0%	0^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	5	12.8%	17^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	58	35.4%	50^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	96	29	30.2%	64^th
1882 Apr-Jul	212	74	34.9%	64^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	13	34.2%	70^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	401	97	24.2%	20^th
1881 Mar-Mar	178	72	40.4%	73^rd
1881 Oct-Oct	61	13	21.3%	36^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	38	58.5%	82^nd
1884 Mar-May	114	38	33.3%	64^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	41	52.6%	55^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	171	65	38.0%	64^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	16	25.4%	50^th
1886 Apr-Jul	234	78	33.3%	62^nd
1886 Aug-Aug	12	1	8.3%	6^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	143	37	25.9%	75^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	5	55.6%	80^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	50	25	50.0%	75^th
1888 Mar-May	64	16	25.0%	40^th
1888 Jun-Aug	62	10	16.1%	20^th
1888 Sep-Oct	14	5	35.7%	45^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	199	64	32.2%	65^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	31	15	48.4%	55^th
1890 Mar-May	114	33	28.9%	45^th
1890 Jun-Aug	150	37	24.7%	38^th
1890 Sep-Sep	79	6	7.6%	25^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	51	35.7%	76^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1892 Jan-Mar	26	9	34.6%	38^th
1892 Apr-Jul	78	12	15.4%	4^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	105	32	30.5%	38^th
1893 Aug-Oct	77	43	55.8%	76^th
1894 Jan-Mar	35	9	25.7%	46^th
1894 Apr-Jul	321	37	11.5%	0^th
1894 Aug-Aug	21	2	9.5%	4^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	101	18	17.8%	18^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	1	16.7%	25^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	36	7	19.4%	26^th
1896 Mar-May	66	11	16.7%	15^th
1896 Jun-Jun	24	16	66.7%	71^st
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	71	35	49.3%	68^th
1897 Mar-Jul	200	33	16.5%	15^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	26	5	19.2%	38^th
1898 Mar-May	51	10	19.6%	26^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	10	18.9%	50^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	51	16	31.4%	52^nd
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	4	20.0%	41^st
1900 Mar-May	57	23	40.4%	53^rd
1900 Jun-Jun	12	7	58.3%	90^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	80	22	27.5%	55^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	3	11.5%	32^nd
1902 Mar-May	49	6	12.2%	31^st
1902 Jun-Jun	23	2	8.7%	32^nd
1903 Jan-Mar	18	8	44.4%	62^nd
1901 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	12	33.3%	41^st
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	15	26.8%	60^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. Francis Cockrell

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Missed Votes

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