Ferry was a senator from Connecticut and was a Republican. He served from 1873 to 1875.
He was previously a senator from Connecticut as a Republican from 1867 to 1873; and the representative for Connecticut’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 1859 to 1861.
![Photo of Sen. Orris Ferry [R-CT, 1873-1875]](/static/legislator-photos/404051-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1867 to Mar 1875, Ferry missed 1,538 of 2,704 roll call votes, which is 56.9%. This is much worse than the median of 31.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1875. 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.
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
