Vice President Schuyler Colfax
Former Vice President of the United States
Colfax was Vice President of the United States and was a Republican. He served from 1869 to 1873.
He was previously the representative for Indiana’s 9th congressional district as a Republican from 1865 to 1869; the representative for Indiana’s 9th congressional district as a Republican from 1863 to 1865; the representative for Indiana’s 9th congressional district as a Republican from 1861 to 1863; the representative for Indiana’s 9th congressional district as a Republican from 1859 to 1861; the representative for Indiana’s 9th congressional district as a Republican from 1857 to 1859; and the representative for Indiana’s 9th congressional district as an Ind. Republican-Democrat from 1855 to 1857.
![Photo of Vice President Schuyler Colfax [R, 1869-1873]](/static/legislator-photos/402755-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1855 to Mar 1869, Colfax missed 139 of 2,395 roll call votes, which is 5.8%. This is better than the median of 26.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1869. 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.
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
