Voting Record
From Mar 1879 to Jan 1881, Martin missed 199 of 367 roll call votes, which is 54.2%. This is much worse than the median of 27.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1881. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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