Richard Coke, former Senator for Texas

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Coke was a senator from Texas and was a Democrat. He served from 1889 to 1895.

He was previously a senator from Texas as a Democrat from 1883 to 1889; and a senator from Texas as a Democrat from 1877 to 1883.

Photo of Sen. Richard Coke [D-TX, 1889-1895]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1877 to Mar 1895, Coke missed 577 of 4,714 roll call votes, which is 12.2%. This is better 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
1877 Oct-Dec	71	1	1.4%	0^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	8	11.6%	6^th
1878 Mar-May	110	12	10.9%	0^th
1878 Jun-Jun	83	15	18.1%	31^st
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	236	28	11.9%	6^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	3	20.0%	50^th
1879 Mar-Jul	191	29	15.2%	20^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	8	16.3%	15^th
1880 Mar-May	127	18	14.2%	5^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	27	69.2%	79^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	13	7.9%	0^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	96	5	5.2%	0^th
1882 Apr-Jul	212	10	4.7%	4^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	2	5.3%	11^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	401	50	12.5%	4^th
1881 Mar-Mar	178	6	3.4%	4^th
1881 Oct-Oct	61	7	11.5%	14^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	3	4.6%	0^th
1884 Mar-May	114	3	2.6%	0^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	2	2.6%	0^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	171	30	17.5%	28^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	9	14.3%	22^nd
1886 Apr-Jul	234	34	14.5%	22^nd
1886 Aug-Aug	12	2	16.7%	30^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	143	16	11.2%	5^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	2	22.2%	31^st
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1888 Mar-May	64	10	15.6%	10^th
1888 Jun-Aug	62	6	9.7%	6^th
1888 Sep-Oct	14	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	199	9	4.5%	0^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	31	3	9.7%	9^th
1890 Mar-May	114	12	10.5%	2^nd
1890 Jun-Aug	150	10	6.7%	0^th
1890 Sep-Sep	79	4	5.1%	7^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	19	13.3%	5^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1892 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1892 Apr-Jul	78	10	12.8%	4^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	105	14	13.3%	4^th
1893 Aug-Oct	77	14	18.2%	22^nd
1894 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1894 Apr-Jul	321	31	9.7%	3^rd
1894 Aug-Aug	21	2	9.5%	4^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	101	90	89.1%	97^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	0	0.0%	0^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. Richard Coke

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