Zachariah Chandler, former Senator for Michigan

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Chandler was a senator from Michigan and was a Republican. He served from 1879 to 1879.

He was previously a senator from Michigan as a Republican from 1863 to 1875; and a senator from Michigan as a Republican from 1857 to 1863.

Photo of Sen. Zachariah Chandler [R-MI, 1879-1879]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1857 to Jul 1879, Chandler missed 1,241 of 6,192 roll call votes, which is 20.0%. This is better than the median of 29.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 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 and major life events.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	5	8.8%	0^th
1858 Mar-May	217	16	7.4%	0^th
1858 Jun-Jun	121	29	24.0%	0^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	269	45	16.7%	0^th
1857 Mar-Mar	28	5	17.9%	0^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	9	100.0%	0^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	5	11.6%	0^th
1860 Mar-May	158	20	12.7%	0^th
1860 Jun-Jun	132	22	16.7%	0^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	232	22	9.5%	0^th
1859 Mar-Mar	32	5	15.6%	33^rd
1860 Jun-Jun	10	5	50.0%	33^rd
1861 Jul-Aug	79	10	12.7%	50^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	73	10	13.7%	0^th
1862 Mar-May	146	20	13.7%	50^th
1862 Jun-Jul	214	41	19.2%	50^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	247	49	19.8%	50^th
1861 Mar-Mar	42	7	16.7%	50^th
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	69	15	21.7%	0^th
1864 Mar-May	167	33	19.8%	50^th
1864 Jun-Jul	181	51	28.2%	50^th
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	161	55	34.2%	50^th
1863 Mar-Mar	19	2	10.5%	50^th
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	39	4	10.3%	25^th
1866 Mar-May	102	7	6.9%	0^th
1866 Jun-Jul	137	37	27.0%	25^th
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	217	34	15.7%	0^th
1865 Mar-Mar	6	4	66.7%	50^th
1867 Mar-Apr	98	10	10.2%	40^th
1867 Jul-Jul	35	7	20.0%	40^th
1867 Nov-Nov	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	55	12	21.8%	40^th
1868 Mar-May	180	25	13.9%	60^th
1868 Jun-Jul	187	50	26.7%	14^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	156	56	35.9%	57^th
1869 Mar-Apr	59	19	32.2%	70^th
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	81	18	22.2%	64^th
1870 Mar-May	168	21	12.5%	0^th
1870 Jun-Jul	215	39	18.1%	0^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	194	27	13.9%	0^th
1869 Apr-Apr	25	1	4.0%	10^th
1871 Mar-Apr	61	6	9.8%	12^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	79	24	30.4%	69^th
1872 Mar-May	339	101	29.8%	24^th
1872 Jun-Jun	93	13	14.0%	6^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	195	41	21.0%	35^th
1871 May-May	36	7	19.4%	38^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	57	9	15.8%	25^th
1874 Mar-May	116	28	24.1%	45^th
1874 Jun-Jun	82	11	13.4%	10^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	149	50	33.6%	57^th
1873 Mar-Mar	16	3	18.8%	25^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	113	33	29.2%	49^th
1879 Mar-Jul	191	63	33.0%	51^st

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. Zachariah Chandler

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