John Williams, former Senator from Tennessee

Dates	Title	Representing
1817-1823	Senator	Tennessee
1815-1817	Senator	Tennessee

Voting Record

From Dec 1815 to Mar 1823, Williams missed 55 of 529 roll call votes, which is 10.4%. This is better than the median of 12.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1823. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1815-Apr 1816	134	6	4.5%	25^th
Dec 1816-Mar 1817	53	4	7.5%	50^th
Dec 1817-Apr 1818	67	4	6.0%	11^th
Dec 1818-Mar 1819	65	19	29.2%	90^th
1820 Jan-May	68	11	16.2%	61^st
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	52	5	9.6%	37^th
1822 Jan-May	61	4	6.6%	33^rd
Dec 1822-Mar 1823	29	2	6.9%	21^st

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