William Smith, former Representative from Virginia's 7th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1859-1861	Representative	Virginia's 7^th District
1857-1859	Representative	Virginia's 7^th District
1855-1857	Representative	Virginia's 7^th District
1853-1855	Representative	Virginia's 7^th District
1841-1843	Representative	Virginia's 13^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1841 to Mar 1861, Smith missed 970 of 3,011 roll call votes, which is 32.2%. This is worse than the median of 23.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1861. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	204	30	14.7%	0^th
1842 Apr-Jul	216	125	57.9%	71^st
1842 Aug-Aug	116	39	33.6%	86^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	60	34.9%	43^rd
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	113	49	43.4%	86^th
1854 Apr-Jul	305	105	34.4%	81^st
1854 Aug-Aug	33	2	6.1%	19^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	155	40	25.8%	64^th
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	173	45	26.0%	81^st
1856 Apr-Jul	200	60	30.0%	57^th
1856 Aug-Aug	73	15	20.5%	60^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	4	9.1%	63^rd
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	230	38	16.5%	49^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	103	57	55.3%	96^th
1858 Mar-May	179	32	17.9%	49^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	14	20.6%	41^st
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	60	30.8%	79^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	13	18.8%	60^th
1860 Mar-May	126	37	29.4%	58^th
1860 Jun-Jun	96	32	33.3%	53^rd
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	113	80.1%	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