Bates was a senator from Delaware and was a Democrat. He served from 1857 to 1859.
![Photo of Sen. Martin Bates [D-DE, 1857-1859]](/static/legislator-photos/401233-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1857 to Mar 1859, Bates missed 592 of 702 roll call votes, which is 84.3%. This is much worse than the median of 25.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1859. 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
