Samuel Pasco, former Senator for Florida

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Pasco was a senator from Florida and was a Democrat. He served from 1893 to 1899.

He was previously a senator from Florida as a Democrat from 1887 to 1893.

Photo of Sen. Samuel Pasco [D-FL, 1893-1899]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1887 to Mar 1899, Pasco missed 833 of 2,263 roll call votes, which is 36.8%. This is on par with the median of 33.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1899. 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 1887-Feb 1888	50	15	30.0%	56^th
1888 Mar-May	64	17	26.6%	53^rd
1888 Jun-Aug	62	28	45.2%	53^rd
1888 Sep-Oct	14	8	57.1%	66^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	199	113	56.8%	84^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	31	20	64.5%	83^rd
1890 Mar-May	114	71	62.3%	89^th
1890 Jun-Aug	150	65	43.3%	54^th
1890 Sep-Sep	79	22	27.8%	56^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	61	42.7%	73^rd
1889 Mar-Apr	9	8	88.9%	82^nd
1892 Jan-Mar	26	10	38.5%	50^th
1892 Apr-Jul	78	57	73.1%	93^rd
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	105	55	52.4%	74^th
1893 Aug-Oct	77	12	15.6%	22^nd
1894 Jan-Mar	35	7	20.0%	26^th
1894 Apr-Jul	321	16	5.0%	2^nd
1894 Aug-Aug	21	8	38.1%	53^rd
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	101	48	47.5%	70^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	36	7	19.4%	25^th
1896 Mar-May	66	14	21.2%	24^th
1896 Jun-Jun	24	7	29.2%	41^st
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	71	36	50.7%	71^st
1897 Mar-Jul	200	78	39.0%	53^rd
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	26	6	23.1%	48^th
1898 Mar-May	51	5	9.8%	9^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	13	24.5%	42^nd
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	51	26	51.0%	70^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 Pasco

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