David Reid, former Senator from North Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1854-1859	Senator	North Carolina
1845-1847	Representative	North Carolina's 3^rd District
1843-1845	Representative	North Carolina's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Jun 1854 to Mar 1859, Reid missed 411 of 1,320 roll call votes, which is 31.1%. This is worse than the median of 25.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1859. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1854 Apr-Jul	2	2	100.0%	97^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	177	130	73.4%	97^th
1856 Jan-Mar	32	13	40.6%	77^th
1856 Apr-Jul	131	19	14.5%	15^th
1856 Aug-Aug	124	4	3.2%	6^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	144	5	3.5%	2^nd
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	44	77.2%	94^th
1858 Mar-May	216	183	84.7%	93^rd
1858 Jun-Jun	116	6	5.2%	2^nd
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	267	2	0.7%	0^th
1857 Mar-Mar	29	3	10.3%	23^rd
1858 Jun-Jun	9	0	0.0%	0^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