William Drayton, former Representative from South Carolina's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1831-1833	Representative	South Carolina's 1^st District
1829-1831	Representative	South Carolina's 1^st District
1827-1829	Representative	South Carolina's 1^st District
1825-1827	Representative	South Carolina's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Jan 1826 to Mar 1833, Drayton missed 195 of 1,074 roll call votes, which is 18.2%. This is worse than the median of 16.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1833. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1826 Jan-May	57	5	8.8%	20^th
1827 Jan-Mar	53	7	13.2%	48^th
Dec 1827-May 1828	158	14	8.9%	37^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	73	7	9.6%	25^th
Dec 1829-May 1830	183	12	6.6%	18^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	88	7	8.0%	28^th
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1832 Mar-May	98	9	9.2%	23^rd
1832 Jun-Jul	168	59	35.1%	84^th
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	143	75	52.4%	94^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