Orville Platt, former Senator for Connecticut

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Platt was a senator from Connecticut and was a Republican. He served from 1903 to 1905.

He was previously a senator from Connecticut as a Republican from 1891 to 1903; a senator from Connecticut as a Republican from 1885 to 1891; and a senator from Connecticut as a Republican from 1879 to 1885.

Photo of Sen. Orville Platt [R-CT, 1903-1905]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1879 to Mar 1905, Platt missed 1,221 of 5,086 roll call votes, which is 24.0%. This is better than the median of 29.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1905. 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
1879 Mar-Jul	191	58	30.4%	17^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	16	32.7%	67^th
1880 Mar-May	127	55	43.3%	67^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	4	10.3%	0^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	38	23.2%	17^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	96	19	19.8%	27^th
1882 Apr-Jul	212	69	32.5%	55^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	11	28.9%	60^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	401	49	12.2%	0^th
1881 Mar-Mar	178	70	39.3%	64^th
1881 Oct-Oct	61	14	23.0%	45^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	8	12.3%	18^th
1884 Mar-May	114	20	17.5%	27^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	21	26.9%	27^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	171	21	12.3%	0^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	16	25.4%	50^th
1886 Apr-Jul	234	77	32.9%	56^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	10	83.3%	75^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	143	36	25.2%	69^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	1	11.1%	13^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	50	12	24.0%	45^th
1888 Mar-May	64	30	46.9%	60^th
1888 Jun-Aug	62	38	61.3%	70^th
1888 Sep-Oct	14	7	50.0%	60^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	199	30	15.1%	5^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	31	5	16.1%	15^th
1890 Mar-May	114	46	40.4%	60^th
1890 Jun-Aug	150	41	27.3%	48^th
1890 Sep-Sep	79	23	29.1%	75^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	43	30.1%	43^rd
1889 Mar-Apr	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1892 Jan-Mar	26	14	53.8%	71^st
1892 Apr-Jul	78	31	39.7%	54^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	105	35	33.3%	46^th
1893 Aug-Oct	77	28	36.4%	44^th
1894 Jan-Mar	35	5	14.3%	15^th
1894 Apr-Jul	321	80	24.9%	31^st
1894 Aug-Aug	21	3	14.3%	8^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	101	10	9.9%	0^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	1	16.7%	25^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	36	9	25.0%	47^th
1896 Mar-May	66	14	21.2%	29^th
1896 Jun-Jun	24	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	71	11	15.5%	6^th
1897 Mar-Jul	200	35	17.5%	22^nd
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	26	1	3.8%	7^th
1898 Mar-May	51	1	2.0%	0^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	1	1.9%	7^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	51	4	7.8%	2^nd
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1900 Mar-May	57	25	43.9%	55^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	1	8.3%	18^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	80	7	8.8%	14^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	5	19.2%	51^st
1902 Mar-May	49	2	4.1%	9^th
1902 Jun-Jun	23	1	4.3%	12^th
1903 Jan-Mar	18	1	5.6%	0^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	1	2.8%	1^st
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	7	12.5%	25^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. Orville Platt

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