Matt Ransom, former Senator for North Carolina

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Ransom was a senator from North Carolina and was a Democrat. He served from 1889 to 1895.

He was previously a senator from North Carolina as a Democrat from 1883 to 1889; a senator from North Carolina as a Democrat from 1877 to 1883; and a senator from North Carolina as a Democrat from 1872 to 1877.

Photo of Sen. Matt Ransom [D-NC, 1889-1895]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Apr 1872 to Mar 1895, Ransom missed 2,493 of 6,057 roll call votes, which is 41.2%. This is worse than the median of 34.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1895. 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
1872 Mar-May	201	81	40.3%	50^th
1872 Jun-Jun	93	25	26.9%	75^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	195	61	31.3%	75^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	57	25	43.9%	62^nd
1874 Mar-May	116	47	40.5%	62^nd
1874 Jun-Jun	82	16	19.5%	12^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	149	50	33.6%	62^nd
1873 Mar-Mar	16	6	37.5%	50^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	89	28	31.5%	56^th
1876 Apr-Jul	186	65	34.9%	50^th
1876 Aug-Aug	51	18	35.3%	62^nd
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	84	27	32.1%	56^th
1875 Mar-Mar	24	15	62.5%	88^th
1877 Oct-Dec	71	51	71.8%	88^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	35	50.7%	88^th
1878 Mar-May	110	64	58.2%	88^th
1878 Jun-Jun	83	30	36.1%	62^nd
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	236	76	32.2%	75^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	5	33.3%	71^st
1879 Mar-Jul	191	70	36.6%	60^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	11	22.4%	40^th
1880 Mar-May	127	57	44.9%	70^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	14	35.9%	42^nd
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	65	39.6%	75^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	96	32	33.3%	68^th
1882 Apr-Jul	212	108	50.9%	86^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	12	31.6%	67^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	401	206	51.4%	81^st
1881 Mar-Mar	178	36	20.2%	33^rd
1881 Oct-Oct	61	39	63.9%	57^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	23	35.4%	62^nd
1884 Mar-May	114	37	32.5%	53^rd
1884 Jun-Jul	78	36	46.2%	66^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	171	102	59.6%	94^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	19	30.2%	60^th
1886 Apr-Jul	234	106	45.3%	70^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	8	66.7%	75^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	143	55	38.5%	72^nd
1885 Mar-Apr	9	4	44.4%	77^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	50	27	54.0%	88^th
1888 Mar-May	64	31	48.4%	63^rd
1888 Jun-Aug	62	37	59.7%	65^th
1888 Sep-Oct	14	13	92.9%	82^nd
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	199	86	43.2%	59^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	31	14	45.2%	53^rd
1890 Mar-May	114	80	70.2%	93^rd
1890 Jun-Aug	150	59	39.3%	44^th
1890 Sep-Sep	79	15	19.0%	31^st
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	73	51.0%	78^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	1	11.1%	21^st
1892 Jan-Mar	26	12	46.2%	55^th
1892 Apr-Jul	78	31	39.7%	39^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	105	59	56.2%	78^th
1893 Aug-Oct	77	18	23.4%	27^th
1894 Jan-Mar	35	8	22.9%	24^th
1894 Apr-Jul	321	112	34.9%	46^th
1894 Aug-Aug	21	8	38.1%	42^nd
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	101	38	37.6%	54^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	6	100.0%	78^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. Matt Ransom

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Missed Votes

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