John Williams, former Senator from Delaware

Dates	Title	Representing
1959-1971	Senator	Delaware
1953-1958	Senator	Delaware
1947-1952	Senator	Delaware

Voting Record

From Jan 1947 to Dec 1970, Williams missed 64 of 4,885 roll call votes, which is 1.3%. This is better than the median of 11.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1970. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1947 Jan-Mar	31	2	6.5%	62^nd
1947 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Jul-Jul	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Nov-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Feb-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Apr-Jun	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Aug-Aug	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	83	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	82	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	83	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Mar	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Apr-Jun	70	1	1.4%	32^nd
1951 Jul-Sep	94	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Oct-Oct	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Apr-Jun	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jul-Jul	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Sep	88	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	1	3.8%	41^st
1955 Apr-Jun	37	2	5.4%	50^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	45	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jul-Aug	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Feb-Mar	38	1	2.6%	34^th
1958 Apr-Jun	84	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jul-Aug	76	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Jan-Apr	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	128	1	0.8%	13^th
1959 Sep-Sep	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	77	1	1.3%	4^th
1960 May-Aug	121	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	135	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Sep-Sep	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	62	1	1.6%	18^th
1962 Jul-Sep	120	1	0.8%	8^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	2	25.0%	81^st
1963 Apr-Jun	70	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jul-Sep	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Oct-Dec	86	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jan-Mar	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	136	1	0.7%	27^th
1964 Jul-Sep	102	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	31	6	19.4%	69^th
1965 Apr-Jun	105	3	2.9%	9^th
1965 Jul-Sep	105	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Oct-Oct	15	1	6.7%	29^th
1966 Jan-Mar	27	1	3.7%	33^rd
1966 Apr-Jun	56	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jul-Sep	119	4	3.4%	23^rd
1966 Oct-Oct	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jan-Mar	53	7	13.2%	46^th
1967 Apr-Jun	68	2	2.9%	21^st
1967 Jul-Sep	78	1	1.3%	10^th
1967 Oct-Dec	108	1	0.9%	6^th
1968 Jan-Mar	69	3	4.3%	24^th
1968 Apr-Jun	96	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jul-Sep	88	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	1	2.3%	27^th
1969 Oct-Dec	155	6	3.9%	10^th
1970 Jan-Mar	100	4	4.0%	20^th
1970 Apr-Jun	91	1	1.1%	5^th
1970 Jul-Sep	120	1	0.8%	4^th
1970 Oct-Dec	105	8	7.6%	27^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