Charles Faulkner, former Senator from West Virginia

Dates	Title	Representing
1893-1899	Senator	West Virginia
1887-1893	Senator	West Virginia

Voting Record

From Dec 1887 to Mar 1899, Faulkner missed 831 of 2,129 roll call votes, which is 39.0%. This is worse than the median of 30.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1899. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	47	18	38.3%	69^th
1888 Mar-May	57	12	21.1%	53^rd
1888 Jun-Aug	60	36	60.0%	78^th
1888 Sep-Oct	10	10	100.0%	88^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	192	106	55.2%	88^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	23	8	34.8%	60^th
1890 Mar-May	106	54	50.9%	80^th
1890 Jun-Aug	139	93	66.9%	81^st
1890 Sep-Sep	75	26	34.7%	67^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	134	41	30.6%	43^rd
1889 Mar-Apr	4	2	50.0%	73^rd
1892 Jan-Mar	25	19	76.0%	90^th
1892 Apr-Jul	71	40	56.3%	78^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	102	52	51.0%	77^th
1893 Aug-Oct	74	2	2.7%	0^th
1894 Jan-Mar	27	5	18.5%	36^th
1894 Apr-Jul	316	59	18.7%	28^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	2	10.0%	14^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	97	21	21.6%	28^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	34	8	23.5%	52^nd
1896 Mar-May	61	15	24.6%	35^th
1896 Jun-Jun	21	9	42.9%	61^st
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	70	26	37.1%	51^st
1897 Mar-Jul	187	89	47.6%	67^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	23	18	78.3%	98^th
1898 Mar-May	49	11	22.4%	34^th
1898 Jun-Jul	50	23	46.0%	82^nd
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	49	26	53.1%	80^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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