William Hamilton, former Senator from Maryland

Dates	Title	Representing
1869-1875	Senator	Maryland
1853-1855	Representative	Maryland's 5^th District
1851-1853	Representative	Maryland's 2^nd District
1849-1851	Representative	Maryland's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Mar 1869 to Mar 1875, Hamilton missed 587 of 1,904 roll call votes, which is 30.8%. This is worse than the median of 30.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1875. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1869 Mar-Apr	58	55	94.8%	97^th
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	81	14	17.3%	55^th
1870 Mar-May	165	60	36.4%	63^rd
1870 Jun-Jul	200	66	33.0%	53^rd
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	192	48	25.0%	37^th
1869 Apr-Apr	25	20	80.0%	91^st
1871 Mar-Apr	58	10	17.2%	47^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	78	34	43.6%	71^st
1872 Mar-May	337	80	23.7%	16^th
1872 Jun-Jun	93	25	26.9%	37^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	192	44	22.9%	23^rd
1871 May-May	16	10	62.5%	89^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	55	17	30.9%	71^st
1874 Mar-May	112	47	42.0%	76^th
1874 Jun-Jun	80	17	21.3%	33^rd
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	146	32	21.9%	30^th
1873 Mar-Mar	16	8	50.0%	77^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