Lewis Cass, former Senator for Michigan

Cass was a senator from Michigan and was a Democrat. He served from 1851 to 1857.

He was previously a senator from Michigan as a Democrat from 1849 to 1851; and a senator from Michigan as a Democrat from 1845 to 1849.

Photo of Sen. Lewis Cass [D-MI, 1851-1857]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1845 to Mar 1857, Cass missed 803 of 2,350 roll call votes, which is 34.2%. This is worse than the median of 27.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1857. 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 1845-Mar 1846	29	3	10.3%	30^th
1846 Apr-Jul	168	33	19.6%	50^th
1846 Aug-Aug	50	7	14.0%	38^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	126	33	26.2%	70^th
1845 Mar-Mar	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	82	15	18.3%	40^th
1848 Apr-Jul	33	12	36.4%	63^rd
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	22	10	45.5%	78^th
1850 Mar-May	64	20	31.2%	72^nd
1850 Jun-Aug	154	34	22.1%	61^st
1850 Sep-Sep	108	40	37.0%	79^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	141	44	31.2%	53^rd
1849 Mar-Mar	10	2	20.0%	50^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	38	11	28.9%	42^nd
1852 Apr-Jul	80	31	38.8%	65^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	21	23.1%	32^nd
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	127	33	26.0%	50^th
1851 Mar-Mar	22	4	18.2%	25^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	51	20	39.2%	69^th
1854 Apr-Jul	230	97	42.2%	83^rd
1854 Aug-Aug	64	32	50.0%	87^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	178	101	56.7%	89^th
1853 Mar-Apr	23	23	100.0%	87^th
1856 Jan-Mar	32	17	53.1%	85^th
1856 Apr-Jul	133	23	17.3%	24^th
1856 Aug-Aug	124	40	32.3%	61^st
1856 Aug-Aug	16	2	12.5%	27^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	95	66.0%	95^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. Lewis Cass

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Missed Votes

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