William Preston, former Senator from South Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1837-1843	Senator	South Carolina
1833-1837	Senator	South Carolina

Voting Record

From Dec 1833 to Aug 1842, Preston missed 538 of 2,073 roll call votes, which is 26.0%. This is worse than the median of 18.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1842. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	12	1	8.3%	79^th
1834 Mar-May	67	14	20.9%	27^th
1834 Jun-Jun	69	11	15.9%	55^th
1835 Jan-Mar	79	16	20.3%	77^th
Dec 1835-Feb 1836	21	5	23.8%	67^th
1836 Mar-May	137	26	19.0%	56^th
1836 Jun-Jul	86	16	18.6%	53^rd
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	187	64	34.2%	85^th
1837 Sep-Oct	36	19	52.8%	85^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	63	21	33.3%	82^nd
1838 Mar-May	91	22	24.2%	57^th
1838 Jun-Jul	78	27	34.6%	75^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	134	50	37.3%	71^st
1840 Jan-Feb	36	7	19.4%	76^th
1840 Mar-May	79	34	43.0%	79^th
1840 Jun-Jul	140	48	34.3%	71^st
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	71	11	15.5%	38^th
1841 Jun-Sep	317	64	20.2%	76^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	43	11	25.6%	66^th
1842 Apr-Jul	194	34	17.5%	51^st
1842 Aug-Aug	127	36	28.3%	78^th
1841 Mar-Mar	6	1	16.7%	80^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