William Dayton, former Senator from New Jersey

Dates	Title	Representing
1845-1851	Senator	New Jersey
1842-1845	Senator	New Jersey

Voting Record

From Feb 1842 to Mar 1851, Dayton missed 537 of 1,840 roll call votes, which is 29.2%. This is worse than the median of 19.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1851. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1842 Apr-Jul	64	19	29.7%	73^rd
1842 Aug-Aug	127	26	20.5%	50^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	127	17	13.4%	40^th
1844 Jan-Feb	28	4	14.3%	36^th
1844 Mar-May	106	49	46.2%	82^nd
1844 Jun-Jun	76	13	17.1%	30^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	95	17	17.9%	73^rd
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	29	12	41.4%	92^nd
1846 Apr-Jul	167	31	18.6%	59^th
1846 Aug-Aug	50	39	78.0%	95^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	126	40	31.7%	77^th
1845 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	82	17	20.7%	70^th
1848 Apr-Jul	116	54	46.6%	85^th
1848 Aug-Aug	66	13	19.7%	44^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	80	16	20.0%	57^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	22	10	45.5%	87^th
1850 Mar-May	64	16	25.0%	61^st
1850 Jun-Aug	154	38	24.7%	81^st
1850 Sep-Sep	108	19	17.6%	47^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	141	79	56.0%	94^th
1849 Mar-Mar	10	8	80.0%	88^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