Samuel Maxey, former Senator for Texas

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Maxey was a senator from Texas and was a Democrat. He served from 1881 to 1887.

He was previously a senator from Texas as a Democrat from 1875 to 1881.

Photo of Sen. Samuel Maxey [D-TX, 1881-1887]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1875 to Mar 1887, Maxey missed 683 of 3,463 roll call votes, which is 19.7%. This is better than the median of 30.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1887. 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 1875-Mar 1876	89	17	19.1%	35^th
1876 Apr-Jul	186	35	18.8%	19^th
1876 Aug-Aug	51	6	11.8%	25^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	84	8	9.5%	6^th
1875 Mar-Mar	24	2	8.3%	19^th
1877 Oct-Dec	71	65	91.5%	88^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	9	13.0%	16^th
1878 Mar-May	110	3	2.7%	0^th
1878 Jun-Jun	83	13	15.7%	16^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	236	30	12.7%	12^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	3	20.0%	41^st
1879 Mar-Jul	191	8	4.2%	0^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	1	2.0%	0^th
1880 Mar-May	127	27	21.3%	32^nd
1880 Jun-Jun	39	8	20.5%	39^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	64	39.0%	72^nd
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	96	4	4.2%	2^nd
1882 Apr-Jul	212	12	5.7%	4^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	7	18.4%	40^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	401	59	14.7%	6^th
1881 Mar-Mar	178	114	64.0%	88^th
1881 Oct-Oct	61	4	6.6%	8^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	12	18.5%	23^rd
1884 Mar-May	114	24	21.1%	29^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	8	10.3%	10^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	171	23	13.5%	11^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	8	12.7%	17^th
1886 Apr-Jul	234	30	12.8%	13^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	1	8.3%	7^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	143	77	53.8%	78^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	1	11.1%	17^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. Samuel Maxey

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