Sen. Salmon Chase

Former Senator for Ohio

Chase was a senator from Ohio and was a Republican. He served from 1861 to 1861.

He was previously a senator from Ohio as a Free Soil from 1849 to 1855.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Salmon Chase [R-OH, 1861-1861]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1849 to Mar 1861, Chase missed 230 of 1,405 roll call votes, which is 16.4%. This is better than the median of 20.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1861. 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 1849-Feb 1850	22	4	18.2%	33^rd
1850 Mar-May	64	0	0.0%	0^th
1850 Jun-Aug	154	29	18.8%	44^th
1850 Sep-Sep	108	22	20.4%	12^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	141	15	10.6%	0^th
1849 Mar-Mar	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	38	12	31.6%	42^nd
1852 Apr-Jul	80	29	36.2%	50^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	17	18.7%	25^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	127	11	8.7%	8^th
1851 Mar-Mar	22	6	27.3%	33^rd
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	51	16	31.4%	54^th
1854 Apr-Jul	230	29	12.6%	8^th
1854 Aug-Aug	64	4	6.2%	0^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	178	31	17.4%	21^st
1853 Mar-Apr	23	3	13.0%	17^th
1861 Mar-Mar	2	2	100.0%	88^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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources