![Photo of Sen. Joseph Wright [U-IN, 1862-1863]](/static/legislator-photos/411915-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Feb 1862 to Jan 1863, Wright missed 21 of 400 roll call votes, which is 5.2%. This is better than the median of 20.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 1863. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
