Sen. Pierre Soulé

Former Senator for Louisiana

Soulé was a senator from Louisiana and was a Democrat. He served from 1849 to 1853.

He was previously a senator from Louisiana as a Democrat from 1847 to 1847.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Pierre Soulé [D-LA, 1849-1853]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1846 to Apr 1853, Soulé missed 259 of 944 roll call votes, which is 27.4%. This is on par with the median of 25.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Apr 1853. 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	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	63	24	38.1%	86^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	22	6	27.3%	81^st
1850 Mar-May	64	29	45.3%	81^st
1850 Jun-Aug	154	10	6.5%	19^th
1850 Sep-Sep	108	14	13.0%	34^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	141	37	26.2%	62^nd
1849 Mar-Mar	10	2	20.0%	55^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	38	17	44.7%	74^th
1852 Apr-Jul	80	39	48.8%	86^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	28	30.8%	72^nd
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	127	46	36.2%	81^st
1851 Mar-Mar	22	2	9.1%	22^nd
1853 Mar-Apr	23	5	21.7%	32^nd

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. Pierre Soulé

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources