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Thomas Jefferson Rusk
Senator from TexasSENATEDEMOCRAT1857–1859ID R000518
LegislationHEADLINE
78%with Dems
of 9 votes
Nominations
—with Dems
of 0 · confirmations only
All contested
78%with Dems
of 9 · both combined
Career arc
Legislation leads. Each point is one Congress: how often they sided with the Democratic majority on contested bills, resolutions and amendments.
100%75%50%25%0%sides with Democrats ↑sides with Republicans ↓1857
1857–5835th Congress
Sat as a Democrat
77.8%with Democrats
of 9 contested votes
Votes for this Congress are open below
Sat as a DemocratSat as a RepublicanVotes available below
Votes
Every roll call before 1973 has no description. These rows carry a date, usually a bill number, how they voted and which side that matched — nothing is filled in by hand.
DateBillVoteTypeCastSided with
Mar 13, 1857noneLEGISLATIONNAYBOTH · NOT SCORED
Mar 13, 1857noneLEGISLATIONNAYREP MAJORITY
Mar 13, 1857noneLEGISLATIONYEANEITHER · NOT SCORED
Full textNo description in the source record. What survives: the date, how they voted and which side that matched.Party majoritiesDemocrats Nay · Republicans NayCounts toward scoreNo — both party majorities voted Nay.
Where this lands
YEAVoted against both majorities — not scored
Mar 13, 1857noneLEGISLATIONYEANEITHER · NOT SCORED
Mar 12, 1857noneLEGISLATIONYEADEM MAJORITY
Mar 12, 1857noneLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
Mar 12, 1857noneLEGISLATIONNAYBOTH · NOT SCORED
Mar 12, 1857noneLEGISLATIONNAYDEM MAJORITY
Mar 12, 1857noneLEGISLATIONYEABOTH · NOT SCORED
9 most recent roll calls shown · 9 contested votes scored in the 35th CongressAll votes this Congress →
By policy area
career · legislationThe record carries no policy area for any of these roll calls, so there is nothing to break out.
Service record
1 Congresses35th · 1857
Democrat · Senate · TX35th–35th
Term datesexact