William Calder, former Senator from New York

Dates	Title	Representing
1917-1923	Senator	New York
1907-1915	Representative	New York's 6^th District
1905-1907	Representative	New York's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1917 to Mar 1923, Calder missed 455 of 1,486 roll call votes, which is 30.6%. This is worse than the median of 27.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1923. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1917 Apr-Jun	58	9	15.5%	50^th
1917 Jul-Sep	98	13	13.3%	52^nd
1917 Oct-Oct	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	33	17	51.5%	85^th
1918 Mar-May	47	23	48.9%	80^th
1918 Jun-Aug	38	19	50.0%	81^st
1918 Sep-Nov	19	11	57.9%	74^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	50	26	52.0%	82^nd
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 May-Jul	30	12	40.0%	85^th
1919 Aug-Oct	30	8	26.7%	68^th
1919 Nov-Nov	78	14	17.9%	87^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	52	21	40.4%	63^rd
1920 Mar-May	100	24	24.0%	56^th
1920 Jun-Jun	19	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	85	30	35.3%	70^th
1921 Apr-Jun	63	25	39.7%	86^th
1921 Jul-Sep	37	18	48.6%	61^st
1921 Oct-Nov	88	37	42.0%	67^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	39	13	33.3%	62^nd
1922 Mar-May	199	60	30.2%	47^th
1922 Jun-Aug	214	51	23.8%	34^th
1922 Sep-Sep	13	4	30.8%	50^th
1922 Nov-Nov	13	6	46.2%	67^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	71	14	19.7%	25^th
1921 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