Robert Hayne, former Senator from South Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1829-1833	Senator	South Carolina
1823-1829	Senator	South Carolina

Voting Record

From Dec 1823 to Dec 1832, Hayne missed 115 of 1,190 roll call votes, which is 9.7%. This is better than the median of 12.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1832. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1823-May 1824	126	3	2.4%	23^rd
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	48	4	8.3%	43^rd
Dec 1825-May 1826	123	13	10.6%	57^th
Dec 1826-Mar 1827	101	3	3.0%	5^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	173	18	10.4%	57^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	62	6	9.7%	56^th
Dec 1829-May 1830	178	28	15.7%	75^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	82	11	13.4%	44^th
1829 Mar-Mar	16	12	75.0%	83^rd
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	11	2	18.2%	74^th
1832 Mar-May	81	4	4.9%	19^th
1832 Jun-Jul	188	10	5.3%	31^st
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	1	1	100.0%	96^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