Conkling was a senator from New York and was a Republican. He served from 1873 to 1881.
He was previously a senator from New York as a Republican from 1867 to 1873; the representative for New York’s 21st congressional district as a Republican from 1865 to 1867; the representative for New York’s 20th congressional district as a Republican from 1861 to 1863; and the representative for New York’s 20th congressional district as a Republican from 1859 to 1861.
![Photo of Sen. Roscoe Conkling [R-NY, 1873-1881]](/static/legislator-photos/402807-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1867 to Mar 1881, Conkling missed 1,252 of 4,438 roll call votes, which is 28.2%. This is on par with the median of 30.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1881. 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.
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
