McPherson was a senator from New Jersey and was a Democrat. He served from 1889 to 1895.
He was previously a senator from New Jersey as a Democrat from 1883 to 1889; and a senator from New Jersey as a Democrat from 1877 to 1883.
![Photo of Sen. John McPherson [D-NJ, 1889-1895]](/static/legislator-photos/407582-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1877 to Mar 1895, McPherson missed 2,701 of 4,714 roll call votes, which is 57.3%. This is much worse than the median of 34.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1895. 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
