Sen. Horace Chilton

Former Senator for Texas

Chilton was a senator from Texas and was a Democrat. He served from 1895 to 1901.

He was previously a senator from Texas as a Democrat from 1891 to 1893.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Horace Chilton [D-TX, 1895-1901]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1892 to Mar 1901, Chilton missed 216 of 771 roll call votes, which is 28.0%. This is better than the median of 34.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1901. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1892 Jan-Mar	24	8	33.3%	48^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	36	3	8.3%	12^th
1896 Mar-May	66	11	16.7%	15^th
1896 Jun-Jun	24	2	8.3%	12^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	71	10	14.1%	6^th
1897 Mar-Jul	200	35	17.5%	15^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1898 Mar-May	51	17	33.3%	55^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	6	11.3%	16^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	51	12	23.5%	36^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	2	10.0%	10^th
1900 Mar-May	57	55	96.5%	98^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	12	100.0%	99^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	80	43	53.8%	82^nd

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. Horace Chilton

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources