Thomas Sumter, former Senator from South Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1805-1811	Senator	South Carolina
1801-1805	Senator	South Carolina
1801-1803	Representative	South Carolina's 4^th District
1799-1801	Representative	South Carolina's 4^th District
1797-1799	Representative	South Carolina's 4^th District
1791-1793	Representative	South Carolina's 4^th District
1789-1791	Representative	South Carolina's 4^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1801 to Dec 1810, Sumter missed 45 of 428 roll call votes, which is 10.5%. This is better than the median of 12.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1810. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1801-May 1802	60	1	1.7%	13^th
Dec 1802-Mar 1803	27	2	7.4%	13^th
Oct 1803-Mar 1804	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Nov 1804-Mar 1805	44	4	9.1%	63^rd
Dec 1805-Apr 1806	68	3	4.4%	11^th
Dec 1806-Mar 1807	20	7	35.0%	90^th
1807 Dec-Dec	7	2	28.6%	81^st
1808 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	26^th
1808 Apr-Apr	20	1	5.0%	30^th
Dec 1808-Mar 1809	42	1	2.4%	3^rd
1809 Jun-Jun	14	14	100.0%	91^st
Dec 1809-Jan 1810	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1810 Feb-Apr	86	4	4.7%	32^nd
1810 May-May	4	2	50.0%	74^th
Dec 1810-Mar 1811	3	3	100.0%	97^th
1809 Mar-Mar	2	0	0.0%	0^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