Isaac Stephenson, former U.S. Senator for Wisconsin

Dates	Title / State / District
1907-1915	Senator, Wisconsin
1887-1889	Representative, Wisconsin's 9^th District
1885-1887	Representative, Wisconsin's 9^th District
1883-1885	Representative, Wisconsin's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1908 to Mar 1915, Stephenson missed 657 of 1,292 roll call votes, which is 50.9%. This is worse than the median of 29.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1915. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1908 Mar-May	49	2	4.1%	3^rd
1909 Jan-Mar	34	9	26.5%	50^th
1909 Apr-Aug	126	44	34.9%	80^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	2	28.6%	33^rd
1910 Mar-May	36	7	19.4%	44^th
1910 Jun-Jun	41	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	50	21	42.0%	90^th
1911 May-Aug	92	34	37.0%	85^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	34	11	32.4%	78^th
1912 Apr-Jul	100	45	45.0%	76^th
1912 Aug-Aug	45	45	100.0%	97^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	109	37	33.9%	64^th
1913 Apr-Jul	38	26	68.4%	91^st
1913 Aug-Nov	109	81	74.3%	92^nd
1913 Dec-Dec	1	1	100.0%	64^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	59	11	18.6%	45^th
1914 Mar-May	57	34	59.6%	82^nd
1914 Jun-Aug	119	104	87.4%	94^th
1914 Sep-Oct	64	64	100.0%	91^st
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	74	63.2%	93^rd
1913 Mar-Mar	5	5	100.0%	76^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