Joseph Wright, former Senator for Indiana

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Wright was a senator from Indiana and was an Unionist. He served from 1862 to 1863.

He was previously the representative for Indiana’s 7^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1843 to 1845.

Photo of Sen. Joseph Wright [U-IN, 1862-1863]

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.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1862 Mar-May	146	10	6.8%	24^th
1862 Jun-Jul	214	8	3.7%	8^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	39	3	7.7%	17^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. Joseph Wright

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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