William Rives, former Senator from Virginia

Dates	Title	Representing
1841-1845	Senator	Virginia
1836-1839	Senator	Virginia
1832-1835	Senator	Virginia
1829-1831	Representative	Virginia
1827-1829	Representative	Virginia's 10^th District
1825-1827	Representative	Virginia's 10^th District
1823-1825	Representative	Virginia's 10^th District

Voting Record

From Feb 1832 to Mar 1845, Rives missed 735 of 2,108 roll call votes, which is 34.9%. This is worse than the median of 16.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1845. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1831-Feb 1832	1	1	100.0%	83^rd
Dec 1832-Mar 1833	132	70	53.0%	83^rd
Dec 1833-Feb 1834	9	3	33.3%	88^th
1836 Mar-May	122	15	12.3%	60^th
1836 Jun-Jul	86	12	14.0%	55^th
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	187	37	19.8%	57^th
1837 Sep-Oct	36	9	25.0%	80^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	63	14	22.2%	69^th
1838 Mar-May	91	37	40.7%	75^th
1838 Jun-Jul	78	26	33.3%	81^st
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	134	62	46.3%	88^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	49	16	32.7%	83^rd
1841 Jun-Sep	317	101	31.9%	97^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	44	18	40.9%	78^th
1842 Apr-Jul	194	71	36.6%	92^nd
1842 Aug-Aug	127	36	28.3%	86^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	127	62	48.8%	95^th
1841 Mar-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1844 Jan-Feb	28	6	21.4%	56^th
1844 Mar-May	106	39	36.8%	77^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	51	67.1%	98^th
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	95	49	51.6%	98^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