Willard Saulsbury Sr., former Senator from Delaware

Dates	Title	Representing
1865-1871	Senator	Delaware
1859-1865	Senator	Delaware

Voting Record

From Mar 1859 to Mar 1871, Saulsbury missed 2,066 of 3,916 roll call votes, which is 52.8%. This is worse than the median of 27.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1871. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	2	4.7%	0^th
1860 Mar-May	158	100	63.3%	92^nd
1860 Jun-Jun	131	62	47.3%	83^rd
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	229	142	62.0%	85^th
1859 Mar-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1860 Jun-Jun	5	1	20.0%	50^th
1861 Jul-Aug	78	13	16.7%	60^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	73	13	17.8%	76^th
1862 Mar-May	144	38	26.4%	94^th
1862 Jun-Jul	213	93	43.7%	94^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	241	101	41.9%	94^th
1861 Mar-Mar	42	42	100.0%	86^th
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	69	16	23.2%	68^th
1864 Mar-May	166	73	44.0%	95^th
1864 Jun-Jul	180	52	28.9%	63^rd
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	160	101	63.1%	95^th
1863 Mar-Mar	19	18	94.7%	94^th
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	39	4	10.3%	41^st
1866 Mar-May	100	43	43.0%	89^th
1866 Jun-Jul	136	94	69.1%	83^rd
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	217	105	48.4%	93^rd
1865 Mar-Mar	6	6	100.0%	88^th
1867 Mar-Apr	98	80	81.6%	93^rd
1867 Jul-Jul	33	33	100.0%	85^th
1867 Nov-Nov	4	4	100.0%	79^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	54	37	68.5%	98^th
1868 Mar-May	180	72	40.0%	98^th
1868 Jun-Jul	187	168	89.8%	90^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	1	100.0%	58^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	154	94	61.0%	94^th
1869 Mar-Apr	58	58	100.0%	98^th
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	81	7	8.6%	25^th
1870 Mar-May	166	96	57.8%	94^th
1870 Jun-Jul	202	140	69.3%	89^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	192	132	68.8%	92^nd
1869 Apr-Apr	25	25	100.0%	91^st

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