William Frye, former Senator from Maine

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1911	Senator	Maine
1901-1907	Senator	Maine
1895-1901	Senator	Maine
1889-1895	Senator	Maine
1883-1889	Senator	Maine
1881-1883	Senator	Maine
1877-1881	Representative	Maine's 2^nd District
1875-1877	Representative	Maine's 2^nd District
1873-1875	Representative	Maine's 2^nd District
1871-1873	Representative	Maine's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Mar 1881 to Aug 1911, Frye missed 1,158 of 4,735 roll call votes, which is 24.5%. This is better than the median of 26.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1911. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	87	21	24.1%	0^th
1882 Apr-Jul	209	64	30.6%	0^th
1882 Aug-Aug	36	21	58.3%	0^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	389	89	22.9%	0^th
1881 Mar-Mar	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1881 Oct-Oct	59	50	84.7%	0^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	60	30	50.0%	50^th
1884 Mar-May	111	29	26.1%	0^th
1884 Jun-Jul	76	11	14.5%	0^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	165	45	27.3%	50^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	62	8	12.9%	50^th
1886 Apr-Jul	222	43	19.4%	50^th
1886 Aug-Aug	9	9	100.0%	50^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	139	16	11.5%	50^th
1885 Mar-Apr	7	1	14.3%	0^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	49	9	18.4%	50^th
1888 Mar-May	61	11	18.0%	50^th
1888 Jun-Aug	61	18	29.5%	50^th
1888 Sep-Oct	13	12	92.3%	50^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	195	40	20.5%	50^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	29	5	17.2%	0^th
1890 Mar-May	107	31	29.0%	50^th
1890 Jun-Aug	145	16	11.0%	33^rd
1890 Sep-Sep	77	7	9.1%	0^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	142	16	11.3%	0^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1892 Jan-Mar	25	6	24.0%	25^th
1892 Apr-Jul	76	17	22.4%	25^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	104	10	9.6%	0^th
1893 Aug-Oct	73	8	11.0%	60^th
1894 Jan-Mar	30	2	6.7%	0^th
1894 Apr-Jul	316	100	31.6%	20^th
1894 Aug-Aug	17	7	41.2%	60^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	98	11	11.2%	0^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	6	100.0%	50^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	34	2	5.9%	25^th
1896 Mar-May	62	17	27.4%	50^th
1896 Jun-Jun	20	20	100.0%	83^rd
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	68	22	32.4%	50^th
1897 Mar-Jul	197	32	16.2%	15^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	24	7	29.2%	85^th
1898 Mar-May	51	7	13.7%	8^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	51	19	37.3%	69^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	3	15.0%	27^th
1900 Mar-May	56	8	14.3%	19^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	3	25.0%	47^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	80	15	18.8%	24^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1902 Mar-May	49	2	4.1%	14^th
1902 Jun-Jun	23	2	8.7%	27^th
1903 Jan-Mar	18	4	22.2%	18^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	5	13.9%	18^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	11	19.6%	55^th
1906 Jan-Feb	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1906 Mar-May	49	11	22.4%	76^th
1906 Jun-Jun	30	22	73.3%	85^th
1907 Jan-Mar	37	7	18.9%	41^st
1908 Mar-May	49	17	34.7%	52^nd
1909 Jan-Mar	34	5	14.7%	27^th
1909 Apr-Aug	123	33	26.8%	66^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1910 Mar-May	35	13	37.1%	71^st
1910 Jun-Jun	41	8	19.5%	47^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	49	25	51.0%	89^th
1911 May-Aug	69	69	100.0%	98^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