William Sewell, former Senator from New Jersey

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1901	Senator	New Jersey
1881-1887	Senator	New Jersey

Voting Record

From Mar 1881 to Mar 1901, Sewell missed 922 of 2,352 roll call votes, which is 39.2%. This is worse than the median of 31.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1901. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	91	40	44.0%	85^th
1882 Apr-Jul	204	96	47.1%	77^th
1882 Aug-Aug	37	9	24.3%	58^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	396	126	31.8%	75^th
1881 Mar-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1881 Oct-Oct	60	53	88.3%	85^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	62	27	43.5%	54^th
1884 Mar-May	108	56	51.9%	77^th
1884 Jun-Jul	78	34	43.6%	54^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	162	51	31.5%	62^nd
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	59	31	52.5%	76^th
1886 Apr-Jul	228	97	42.5%	76^th
1886 Aug-Aug	10	3	30.0%	59^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	135	93	68.9%	94^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	1	11.1%	24^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	30	14	46.7%	87^th
1896 Mar-May	57	19	33.3%	60^th
1896 Jun-Jun	20	11	55.0%	67^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	69	30	43.5%	66^th
1897 Mar-Jul	190	60	31.6%	46^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	25	3	12.0%	33^rd
1898 Mar-May	50	12	24.0%	45^th
1898 Jun-Jul	50	4	8.0%	20^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	47	14	29.8%	58^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	19	3	15.8%	43^rd
1900 Mar-May	57	16	28.1%	34^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	5	41.7%	76^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	74	14	18.9%	36^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