Silas Wright Jr., former Senator from New York

Dates	Title	Representing
1843-1845	Senator	New York
1837-1843	Senator	New York
1833-1837	Senator	New York
1831-1833	Representative	New York
1827-1829	Representative	New York's 20^th District

Voting Record

From Feb 1832 to Jun 1844, Wright missed 366 of 2,535 roll call votes, which is 14.4%. This is better than the median of 16.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1844. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	122	11	9.0%	0^th
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1834 Mar-May	67	9	13.4%	0^th
1834 Jun-Jun	69	5	7.2%	0^th
1835 Jan-Mar	79	13	16.5%	83^rd
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	21	3	14.3%	56^th
1836 Mar-May	137	17	12.4%	70^th
1836 Jun-Jul	86	8	9.3%	27^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	187	9	4.8%	21^st
1837 Sep-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	63	12	19.0%	56^th
1838 Mar-May	91	12	13.2%	38^th
1838 Jun-Jul	78	15	19.2%	44^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	134	21	15.7%	29^th
1840 Jan-Feb	36	6	16.7%	67^th
1840 Mar-May	79	12	15.2%	33^rd
1840 Jun-Jul	140	19	13.6%	37^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	71	8	11.3%	29^th
1841 Jun-Sep	317	47	14.8%	78^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	44	7	15.9%	57^th
1842 Apr-Jul	194	29	14.9%	39^th
1842 Aug-Aug	127	34	26.8%	81^st
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	127	27	21.3%	62^nd
1841 Mar-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1844 Jan-Feb	28	3	10.7%	31^st
1844 Mar-May	106	18	17.0%	30^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	21	27.6%	67^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