Sen. Graham Fitch

Former Senator from Indiana, Democrat

Fitch, a Democrat, was a senator from Indiana from 1857 to 1861.

He was previously the representative for Indiana's 9^th congressional district (1851-1853); and the representative for Indiana's 9^th congressional district (1849-1851).

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Voting Record

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From Feb 1857 to Mar 1861, Fitch missed 364 of 1,413 roll call votes, which is 25.8%. This is on par with the median of 21.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1861. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	104	19	18.3%	41^st
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	12	21.1%	57^th
1858 Mar-May	217	81	37.3%	83^rd
1858 Jun-Jun	121	25	20.7%	37^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	269	57	21.2%	51^st
1857 Mar-Mar	29	2	6.9%	13^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	3	7.0%	12^th
1860 Mar-May	158	59	37.3%	75^th
1860 Jun-Jun	132	33	25.0%	43^rd
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	232	65	28.0%	60^th
1859 Mar-Mar	32	2	6.3%	25^th
1860 Jun-Jun	10	6	60.0%	65^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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