Sen. Samuel McEnery

Former Senator for Louisiana

McEnery was a senator from Louisiana and was a Democrat. He served from 1903 to 1911.

He was previously a senator from Louisiana as a Democrat from 1897 to 1903.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Samuel McEnery [D-LA, 1903-1911]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1897 to Jun 1910, McEnery missed 533 of 1,182 roll call votes, which is 45.1%. This is much worse than the median of 26.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1910. 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
1897 Mar-Jul	200	67	33.5%	43^rd
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	26	13	50.0%	82^nd
1898 Mar-May	51	11	21.6%	27^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	7	13.2%	27^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	51	11	21.6%	27^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	3	15.0%	21^st
1900 Mar-May	57	41	71.9%	90^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	4	33.3%	55^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	80	36	45.0%	75^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	17	65.4%	86^th
1902 Mar-May	49	42	85.7%	97^th
1902 Jun-Jun	23	14	60.9%	92^nd
1903 Jan-Mar	18	10	55.6%	70^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	65^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	29	80.6%	95^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	14	25.0%	56^th
1906 Jan-Feb	8	5	62.5%	84^th
1906 Mar-May	49	21	42.9%	91^st
1906 Jun-Jun	31	26	83.9%	89^th
1907 Jan-Mar	38	20	52.6%	85^th
1908 Mar-May	49	40	81.6%	94^th
1909 Jan-Mar	35	19	54.3%	86^th
1909 Apr-Aug	129	42	32.6%	74^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	1	14.3%	10^th
1910 Mar-May	36	14	38.9%	66^th
1910 Jun-Jun	41	25	61.0%	77^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 McEnery

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources