Houston was a senator from Texas and was an American. He served from 1853 to 1859.
He was previously a senator from Texas as a Democrat from 1847 to 1853; a senator from Texas as a Democrat from 1846 to 1847; the representative for Tennessee’s 7th congressional district as a Jackson from 1825 to 1827; and the representative for Tennessee’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1823 to 1825.
![Photo of Sen. Samuel Houston [A-TX, 1853-1859]](/static/legislator-photos/405674-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1846 to Mar 1859, Houston missed 847 of 3,244 roll call votes, which is 26.1%. This is on par with the median of 25.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1859. 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
