Sen. Franklin Elmore
Former Senator for South Carolina
Elmore was a senator from South Carolina and was a Democrat. He served from 1850 to 1851.
He was previously the representative for South Carolina’s 4th congressional district as a Nullifier from 1837 to 1839; and the representative for South Carolina’s 4th congressional district as a Nullifier from 1835 to 1837.
![Photo of Sen. Franklin Elmore [D-SC, 1850-1851]](/static/legislator-photos/403849-200px.jpeg)
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Voting Record
Missed Votes
From May 1850 to May 1850, Elmore missed 4 of 10 roll call votes, which is 40.0%. This is much worse than the median of 19.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in May 1850. 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.
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
