Timothy Howe, former Senator for Wisconsin

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Howe was a senator from Wisconsin and was a Republican. He served from 1873 to 1879.

He was previously a senator from Wisconsin as a Republican from 1861 to 1873.

Photo of Sen. Timothy Howe [R-WI, 1873-1879]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1861 to Mar 1879, Howe missed 1,511 of 5,598 roll call votes, which is 27.0%. This is on par with 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
1861 Jul-Aug	79	18	22.8%	75^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	73	2	2.7%	0^th
1862 Mar-May	146	9	6.2%	0^th
1862 Jun-Jul	214	30	14.0%	25^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	247	69	27.9%	75^th
1861 Mar-Mar	42	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	69	10	14.5%	25^th
1864 Mar-May	167	30	18.0%	50^th
1864 Jun-Jul	181	61	33.7%	75^th
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	161	51	31.7%	50^th
1863 Mar-Mar	19	1	5.3%	25^th
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	39	2	5.1%	0^th
1866 Mar-May	102	11	10.8%	17^th
1866 Jun-Jul	137	26	19.0%	17^th
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	217	48	22.1%	33^rd
1865 Mar-Mar	6	6	100.0%	75^th
1867 Mar-Apr	98	15	15.3%	30^th
1867 Jul-Jul	35	9	25.7%	44^th
1867 Nov-Nov	4	4	100.0%	89^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	55	9	16.4%	30^th
1868 Mar-May	180	24	13.3%	50^th
1868 Jun-Jul	187	45	24.1%	15^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	156	48	30.8%	46^th
1869 Mar-Apr	59	9	15.3%	20^th
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	81	12	14.8%	25^th
1870 Mar-May	168	51	30.4%	50^th
1870 Jun-Jul	215	60	27.9%	38^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	194	60	30.9%	53^rd
1869 Apr-Apr	25	17	68.0%	80^th
1871 Mar-Apr	61	13	21.3%	58^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	79	58	73.4%	95^th
1872 Mar-May	339	188	55.5%	90^th
1872 Jun-Jun	93	30	32.3%	40^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	195	59	30.3%	55^th
1871 May-May	36	4	11.1%	16^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	57	6	10.5%	18^th
1874 Mar-May	116	27	23.3%	35^th
1874 Jun-Jun	82	39	47.6%	76^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	149	45	30.2%	51^st
1873 Mar-Mar	16	3	18.8%	24^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	89	20	22.5%	38^th
1876 Apr-Jul	186	37	19.9%	19^th
1876 Aug-Aug	51	12	23.5%	36^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	84	44	52.4%	90^th
1875 Mar-Mar	24	3	12.5%	27^th
1877 Oct-Dec	71	13	18.3%	51^st
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	13	18.8%	38^th
1878 Mar-May	110	37	33.6%	53^rd
1878 Jun-Jun	83	34	41.0%	74^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	236	87	36.9%	69^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	2	13.3%	22^nd

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. Timothy Howe

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