Pierce Butler, former Senator from South Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1802-1805	Senator	South Carolina
1793-1797	Senator	South Carolina
1789-1793	Senator	South Carolina

Voting Record

From Jul 1789 to Mar 1805, Butler missed 204 of 447 roll call votes, which is 45.6%. This is worse than the median of 10.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1805. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1789 Jul-Aug	10	2	20.0%	50^th
1789 Sep-Sep	11	2	18.2%	0^th
1790 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1790 May-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1790 Jul-Aug	28	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1790-Mar 1791	18	1	5.6%	0^th
1791 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1792 Jan-Mar	28	4	14.3%	67^th
1792 Apr-May	8	8	100.0%	67^th
Dec 1792-Mar 1793	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1794 Jan-Feb	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1794 Mar-May	38	17	44.7%	60^th
1794 Jun-Jun	8	8	100.0%	50^th
Dec 1794-Mar 1795	19	19	100.0%	75^th
Dec 1795-Jan 1796	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1796 Mar-May	43	15	34.9%	33^rd
1796 Jun-Jun	2	0	0.0%	0^th
1795 Jun-Jun	14	0	0.0%	0^th
Oct 1803-Mar 1804	104	101	97.1%	98^th
Nov 1804-Mar 1805	46	27	58.7%	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