Collamer was a senator from Vermont and was a Republican. He served from 1861 to 1865.
He was previously a senator from Vermont as a Republican from 1855 to 1861; the representative for Vermont’s 2nd congressional district as a Whig from 1847 to 1849; the representative for Vermont’s 2nd congressional district as a Whig from 1845 to 1847; and the representative for Vermont’s 2nd congressional district as a Whig from 1843 to 1845.
![Photo of Sen. Jacob Collamer [R-VT, 1861-1865]](/static/legislator-photos/402757-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1856 to Mar 1865, Collamer missed 949 of 3,162 roll call votes, which is 30.0%. This is worse than the median of 23.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1865. 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
