William Roane, former Senator from Virginia

Dates	Title	Representing
1837-1841	Senator	Virginia
1815-1817	Representative	Virginia's 12^th District

Voting Record

From Sep 1837 to Mar 1841, Roane missed 119 of 728 roll call votes, which is 16.3%. This is better than the median of 21.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1841. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1837 Sep-Oct	36	1	2.8%	26^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	63	8	12.7%	39^th
1838 Mar-May	91	12	13.2%	32^nd
1838 Jun-Jul	78	16	20.5%	48^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	134	13	9.7%	23^rd
1840 Jan-Feb	36	2	5.6%	20^th
1840 Mar-May	79	18	22.8%	44^th
1840 Jun-Jul	140	29	20.7%	44^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	71	20	28.2%	70^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