Watson Squire, former Senator from Washington

Dates	Title	Representing
1891-1897	Senator	Washington
1889-1891	Senator	Washington

Voting Record

From Dec 1889 to Mar 1897, Squire missed 784 of 1,411 roll call votes, which is 55.6%. This is worse than the median of 32.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1897. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	27	20	74.1%	93^rd
1890 Mar-May	106	53	50.0%	73^rd
1890 Jun-Aug	141	82	58.2%	67^th
1890 Sep-Sep	76	54	71.1%	86^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	135	97	71.9%	95^th
1892 Jan-Mar	26	7	26.9%	36^th
1892 Apr-Jul	74	39	52.7%	74^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	104	41	39.4%	61^st
1893 Aug-Oct	71	42	59.2%	88^th
1894 Jan-Mar	29	12	41.4%	78^th
1894 Apr-Jul	306	162	52.9%	81^st
1894 Aug-Aug	21	20	95.2%	89^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	98	30	30.6%	45^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	5	83.3%	72^nd
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	35	13	37.1%	73^rd
1896 Mar-May	62	28	45.2%	71^st
1896 Jun-Jun	24	21	87.5%	79^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	70	58	82.9%	90^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