Josiah Wolcott, former Senator from Delaware

Dates	Title	Representing
1917-1921	Senator	Delaware

Voting Record

From Mar 1917 to Aug 1922, Wolcott missed 264 of 817 roll call votes, which is 32.3%. This is worse than the median of 27.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1922. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1917 Apr-Jun	59	11	18.6%	63^rd
1917 Jul-Sep	100	21	21.0%	69^th
1917 Oct-Oct	10	1	10.0%	31^st
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	33	10	30.3%	68^th
1918 Mar-May	54	26	48.1%	77^th
1918 Jun-Aug	41	25	61.0%	89^th
1918 Sep-Nov	19	11	57.9%	74^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	51	15	29.4%	48^th
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 May-Jul	31	10	32.3%	76^th
1919 Aug-Oct	29	5	17.2%	53^rd
1919 Nov-Nov	78	11	14.1%	77^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	47	15	31.9%	49^th
1920 Mar-May	99	33	33.3%	73^rd
1920 Jun-Jun	18	8	44.4%	66^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	83	41	49.4%	82^nd
1921 Apr-Jun	62	20	32.3%	79^th
1922 Jun-Aug	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1921 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	68^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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Josiah Wolcott [D-DE, 1917-1921] leaves office as Senator from Delaware

Dec 31, 1921

Elections and Offices

Sen. Josiah Wolcott [D-DE, 1917-1921] takes office as Senator from Delaware

Apr 02, 1917

Sen. Josiah Wolcott

Elected Positions

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

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