William Fessenden, former Senator from Maine

Dates	Title	Representing
1865-1869	Senator	Maine
1859-1865	Senator	Maine
1854-1859	Senator	Maine
1841-1843	Representative	Maine's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Mar 1854 to Apr 1869, Fessenden missed 969 of 4,718 roll call votes, which is 20.5%. This is better than the median of 27.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Apr 1869. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	30	7	23.3%	67^th
1854 Apr-Jul	229	62	27.1%	33^rd
1854 Aug-Aug	64	21	32.8%	33^rd
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	177	52	29.4%	50^th
1856 Jan-Mar	32	6	18.8%	50^th
1856 Apr-Jul	131	38	29.0%	17^th
1856 Aug-Aug	124	61	49.2%	50^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	16	100.0%	50^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	143	47	32.9%	50^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	2	3.5%	0^th
1858 Mar-May	216	39	18.1%	50^th
1858 Jun-Jun	116	17	14.7%	13^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	267	47	17.6%	38^th
1857 Mar-Mar	29	25	86.2%	75^th
1858 Jun-Jun	9	9	100.0%	38^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	43	7	16.3%	33^rd
1860 Mar-May	158	42	26.6%	50^th
1860 Jun-Jun	131	18	13.7%	17^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	229	11	4.8%	8^th
1859 Mar-Mar	32	15	46.9%	58^th
1860 Jun-Jun	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1861 Jul-Aug	78	2	2.6%	7^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	73	3	4.1%	24^th
1862 Mar-May	146	6	4.1%	12^th
1862 Jun-Jul	213	19	8.9%	35^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	241	24	10.0%	41^st
1861 Mar-Mar	42	8	19.0%	57^th
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	69	13	18.8%	47^th
1864 Mar-May	166	28	16.9%	47^th
1864 Jun-Jul	146	53	36.3%	84^th
1863 Mar-Mar	19	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	39	3	7.7%	21^st
1866 Mar-May	100	12	12.0%	26^th
1866 Jun-Jul	135	35	25.9%	57^th
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	216	43	19.9%	21^st
1865 Mar-Mar	6	1	16.7%	32^nd
1867 Mar-Apr	98	12	12.2%	20^th
1867 Jul-Jul	33	7	21.2%	51^st
1867 Nov-Nov	4	1	25.0%	46^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	52	12	23.1%	65^th
1868 Mar-May	180	34	18.9%	68^th
1868 Jun-Jul	187	62	33.2%	62^nd
1868 Sep-Sep	1	1	100.0%	58^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	154	34	22.1%	44^th
1869 Mar-Apr	57	14	24.6%	65^th
1869 Apr-Apr	25	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