Sen. Wilbur Sanders

Former Senator for Montana

Sanders was a senator from Montana and was a Republican. He served from 1890 to 1893.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Wilbur Sanders [R-MT, 1890-1893]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1889 to Mar 1893, Sanders missed 291 of 656 roll call votes, which is 44.4%. This is worse than the median of 35.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1893. 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 1889-Feb 1890	3	3	100.0%	97^th
1890 Mar-May	72	34	47.2%	63^rd
1890 Jun-Aug	150	47	31.3%	30^th
1890 Sep-Sep	79	42	53.2%	78^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	33	23.1%	21^st
1892 Jan-Mar	26	8	30.8%	30^th
1892 Apr-Jul	78	21	26.9%	22^nd
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	105	103	98.1%	94^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. Wilbur Sanders

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources