James Bayard Jr., former Senator from Delaware

Dates	Title	Representing
1867-1869	Senator	Delaware
1863-1865	Senator	Delaware
1857-1863	Senator	Delaware
1851-1857	Senator	Delaware

Voting Record

From Mar 1851 to Mar 1869, Bayard missed 2,258 of 4,123 roll call votes, which is 54.8%. This is worse than the median of 22.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1869. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	38	16	42.1%	67^th
1852 Apr-Jul	80	46	57.5%	67^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	22	24.2%	67^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	124	41	33.1%	67^th
1851 Mar-Mar	22	6	27.3%	67^th
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	50	19	38.0%	75^th
1854 Apr-Jul	229	71	31.0%	75^th
1854 Aug-Aug	64	26	40.6%	75^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	178	65	36.5%	80^th
1853 Mar-Apr	22	5	22.7%	33^rd
1856 Jan-Mar	32	18	56.3%	86^th
1856 Apr-Jul	131	91	69.5%	71^st
1856 Aug-Aug	124	48	38.7%	57^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	1	6.3%	14^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	143	70	49.0%	71^st
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	21	36.8%	73^rd
1858 Mar-May	216	64	29.6%	73^rd
1858 Jun-Jun	116	29	25.0%	55^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	267	92	34.5%	73^rd
1857 Mar-Mar	29	25	86.2%	73^rd
1858 Jun-Jun	9	9	100.0%	45^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	11	25.6%	79^th
1860 Mar-May	158	106	67.1%	93^rd
1860 Jun-Jun	131	65	49.6%	93^rd
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	229	119	52.0%	87^th
1859 Mar-Mar	32	19	59.4%	79^th
1860 Jun-Jun	5	1	20.0%	57^th
1861 Jul-Aug	78	63	80.8%	94^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	73	55	75.3%	95^th
1862 Mar-May	146	120	82.2%	95^th
1862 Jun-Jul	213	187	87.8%	95^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	241	197	81.7%	95^th
1861 Mar-Mar	42	32	76.2%	82^nd
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	37	37	100.0%	97^th
1863 Mar-Mar	19	19	100.0%	93^rd
1867 Mar-Apr	24	19	79.2%	89^th
1867 Jul-Jul	33	20	60.6%	72^nd
1867 Nov-Nov	4	3	75.0%	68^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	54	33	61.1%	93^rd
1868 Mar-May	180	92	51.1%	96^th
1868 Jun-Jul	187	160	85.6%	90^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	1	100.0%	53^rd
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	155	114	73.5%	97^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