William McMaster, former Senator from South Dakota

Dates	Title	Representing
1925-1931	Senator	South Dakota
1817-1819	Representative	North Carolina

Voting Record

From Mar 1925 to Mar 1931, McMaster missed 132 of 839 roll call votes, which is 15.7%. This is better than the median of 19.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1931. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1926 Jan-Feb	59	8	13.6%	61^st
1926 Mar-May	51	5	9.8%	31^st
1926 Jun-Jul	38	5	13.2%	49^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	75	4	5.3%	7^th
1925 Mar-Mar	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	123	9	7.3%	22^nd
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	66	8	12.1%	33^rd
1929 May-Jun	27	2	7.4%	40^th
1929 Sep-Sep	8	1	12.5%	47^th
1929 Oct-Nov	55	13	23.6%	72^nd
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	99	2	2.0%	8^th
1930 Mar-May	138	37	26.8%	65^th
1930 Jun-Jul	21	13	61.9%	76^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	60	25	41.7%	80^th
1930 Jul-Jul	9	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