William Payne, former Representative from Alabama's 4th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1845-1847	Representative	Alabama's 4^th District
1843-1845	Representative	Alabama's 4^th District
1841-1843	Representative	Alabama

Voting Record

From May 1841 to Mar 1847, Payne missed 485 of 2,199 roll call votes, which is 22.1%. This is better than the median of 24.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1847. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1841 May-Sep	264	89	33.7%	70^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	202	72	35.6%	84^th
1842 Apr-Jul	216	54	25.0%	55^th
1842 Aug-Aug	116	14	12.1%	27^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	43	25.0%	52^nd
Dec 1843-Feb 1844	138	17	12.3%	36^th
1844 Mar-May	207	32	15.5%	33^rd
1844 Jun-Jun	76	21	27.6%	64^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	170	26	15.3%	27^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	149	18	12.1%	22^nd
1846 Apr-Jul	263	43	16.3%	22^nd
1846 Aug-Aug	51	4	7.8%	14^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	175	52	29.7%	58^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