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Sen. Francis Kernan

Former Senator from New York, Democrat

Kernan, a Democrat, was a senator from New York from 1875 to 1881.

He was previously the representative for New York's 21^st congressional district (1863-1865).

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Voting Record

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From Mar 1875 to Mar 1881, Kernan missed 253 of 1,588 roll call votes, which is 15.9%. This is better than the median of 29.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1881. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	89	15	16.9%	32^nd
1876 Apr-Jul	186	65	34.9%	43^rd
1876 Aug-Aug	51	3	5.9%	0^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	84	13	15.5%	15^th
1875 Mar-Mar	24	4	16.7%	50^th
1877 Oct-Dec	71	9	12.7%	48^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	16	23.2%	55^th
1878 Mar-May	110	20	18.2%	19^th
1878 Jun-Jun	83	10	12.0%	10^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	236	30	12.7%	7^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	5	33.3%	65^th
1879 Mar-Jul	191	10	5.2%	6^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	3	6.1%	4^th
1880 Mar-May	127	24	18.9%	19^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	9	23.1%	38^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	17	10.4%	6^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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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