William Archer, former Senator from Virginia

Dates	Title	Representing
1841-1847	Senator	Virginia
1833-1835	Representative	Virginia's 3^rd District
1831-1833	Representative	Virginia's 3^rd District
1829-1831	Representative	Virginia's 3^rd District
1827-1829	Representative	Virginia's 3^rd District
1825-1827	Representative	Virginia's 3^rd District
1823-1825	Representative	Virginia's 3^rd District
1821-1823	Representative	Virginia's 17^th District
1819-1821	Representative	Virginia's 17^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1841 to Mar 1847, Archer missed 217 of 1,493 roll call votes, which is 14.5%. This is better than the median of 16.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1847. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1841 Jun-Sep	317	36	11.4%	68^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	44	6	13.6%	65^th
1842 Apr-Jul	194	25	12.9%	32^nd
1842 Aug-Aug	127	15	11.8%	23^rd
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	127	17	13.4%	39^th
1841 Mar-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1844 Jan-Feb	28	1	3.6%	11^th
1844 Mar-May	106	25	23.6%	57^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	9	11.8%	8^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	95	34	35.8%	90^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	29	3	10.3%	44^th
1846 Apr-Jul	167	26	15.6%	49^th
1846 Aug-Aug	50	10	20.0%	49^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	126	10	7.9%	17^th
1845 Mar-Mar	1	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