Jerome Chaffee, former Senator for Colorado

Chaffee was a senator from Colorado and was a Republican. He served from 1876 to 1879.

He was previously the representative for Colorado as a Republican from 1873 to 1875; and the representative for Colorado as a Republican from 1871 to 1873.

Photo of Sen. Jerome Chaffee [R-CO, 1876-1879]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Feb 1876 to Mar 1879, Chaffee missed 383 of 669 roll call votes, which is 57.2%. This is much worse than the median of 30.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1879. 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
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	84	9	10.7%	5^th
1877 Oct-Dec	71	5	7.0%	19^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	14	20.3%	41^st
1878 Mar-May	110	68	61.8%	95^th
1878 Jun-Jun	83	83	100.0%	95^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	236	200	84.7%	96^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	4	26.7%	59^th

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. Jerome Chaffee

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources