Rep. Samuel Cox
Former Representative for New York’s 9th District
Cox was the representative for New York’s 9th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1889 to 1891.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1887 to 1889; the representative for New York’s 9th congressional district as a Democrat from 1885 to 1887; the representative for New York’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1883 to 1885; the representative for New York’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1881 to 1883; the representative for New York’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1877 to 1881; the representative for New York’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1875 to 1877; the representative for New York’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1873 to 1875; the representative for New York’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1869 to 1873; the representative for Ohio’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1863 to 1865; the representative for Ohio’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1861 to 1863; the representative for Ohio’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1859 to 1861; and the representative for Ohio’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1857 to 1859.
![Photo of Rep. Samuel Cox [D-NY9, 1889-1891]](/static/legislator-photos/402956-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1857 to Mar 1889, Cox missed 2,103 of 6,010 roll call votes, which is 35.0%. This is on par with the median of 32.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1889. 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
