Thomas McCreery, former Senator for Kentucky

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McCreery was a senator from Kentucky and was a Democrat. He served from 1873 to 1879.

He was previously a senator from Kentucky as a Democrat from 1868 to 1871.

Photo of Sen. Thomas McCreery [D-KY, 1873-1879]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Apr 1867 to Mar 1879, McCreery missed 441 of 2,716 roll call votes, which is 16.2%. This is better than the median of 30.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1879. 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
1867 Mar-Apr	5	5	100.0%	90^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	8	3	37.5%	90^th
1868 Mar-May	179	9	5.0%	0^th
1868 Jun-Jul	187	19	10.2%	0^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	1	100.0%	69^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	156	22	14.1%	8^th
1869 Mar-Apr	59	10	16.9%	27^th
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	81	28	34.6%	94^th
1870 Mar-May	168	22	13.1%	6^th
1870 Jun-Jul	215	25	11.6%	0^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	194	53	27.3%	35^th
1869 Apr-Apr	25	3	12.0%	13^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	57	3	5.3%	6^th
1874 Mar-May	116	9	7.8%	3^rd
1874 Jun-Jun	82	9	11.0%	9^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	149	21	14.1%	6^th
1873 Mar-Mar	16	4	25.0%	29^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	89	2	2.2%	2^nd
1876 Apr-Jul	186	23	12.4%	7^th
1876 Aug-Aug	51	6	11.8%	17^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	84	9	10.7%	5^th
1875 Mar-Mar	24	2	8.3%	19^th
1877 Oct-Dec	71	29	40.8%	70^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	7	10.1%	13^th
1878 Mar-May	110	15	13.6%	12^th
1878 Jun-Jun	83	23	27.7%	47^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	236	79	33.5%	59^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^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. Thomas McCreery

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