William Fulton, former Senator from Arkansas

Dates	Title	Representing
1836-1845	Senator	Arkansas

Voting Record

From Dec 1836 to Jun 1844, Fulton missed 141 of 1,940 roll call votes, which is 7.3%. This is better than the median of 16.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1844. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	187	2	1.1%	7^th
1837 Sep-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	63	1	1.6%	6^th
1838 Mar-May	91	6	6.6%	6^th
1838 Jun-Jul	78	9	11.5%	13^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	134	3	2.2%	6^th
1840 Jan-Feb	36	1	2.8%	11^th
1840 Mar-May	79	12	15.2%	33^rd
1840 Jun-Jul	140	17	12.1%	32^nd
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	71	2	2.8%	0^th
1841 Jun-Sep	317	8	2.5%	6^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	44	1	2.3%	11^th
1842 Apr-Jul	194	6	3.1%	3^rd
1842 Aug-Aug	127	14	11.0%	14^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	127	21	16.5%	41^st
1841 Mar-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1844 Jan-Feb	28	4	14.3%	40^th
1844 Mar-May	106	28	26.4%	66^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	6	7.9%	6^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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. William Fulton [D-AR, 1836-1845] leaves office as Senator from Arkansas

Mar 03, 1845

Elections and Offices

Sen. William Fulton [D-AR, 1836-1845] takes office as Senator from Arkansas

Jan 01, 1836

Sen. William Fulton

Elected Positions

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

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