William Smith, former Senator from South Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1826-1831	Senator	South Carolina
1825-1827	Representative	Virginia
1823-1825	Representative	Virginia
1821-1823	Representative	Virginia
1816-1823	Senator	South Carolina

Voting Record

From Jan 1817 to Mar 1831, Smith missed 146 of 996 roll call votes, which is 14.7%. This is worse than the median of 12.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1831. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1816-Mar 1817	42	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1817-Apr 1818	67	6	9.0%	17^th
Dec 1818-Mar 1819	65	42	64.6%	86^th
1820 Jan-May	68	1	1.5%	0^th
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	52	4	7.7%	30^th
1822 Jan-May	61	5	8.2%	58^th
Dec 1822-Mar 1823	29	8	27.6%	62^nd
Dec 1826-Mar 1827	101	3	3.0%	3^rd
Dec 1827-May 1828	173	35	20.2%	86^th
Dec 1828-Mar 1829	62	3	4.8%	40^th
Dec 1829-May 1830	178	12	6.7%	46^th
Dec 1830-Mar 1831	82	26	31.7%	82^nd
1829 Mar-Mar	16	1	6.3%	52^nd

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