William Smith, former Senator from Michigan

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1919	Senator	Michigan
1905-1907	Representative	Michigan's 5^th District
1903-1905	Representative	Michigan's 5^th District
1901-1903	Representative	Michigan's 5^th District
1899-1901	Representative	Michigan's 5^th District
1895-1899	Representative	Michigan's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Feb 1907 to Mar 1919, Smith missed 959 of 2,001 roll call votes, which is 47.9%. This is worse than the median of 27.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1919. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1907 Jan-Mar	23	4	17.4%	29^th
1908 Mar-May	49	9	18.4%	19^th
1909 Jan-Mar	34	12	35.3%	56^th
1909 Apr-Aug	107	41	38.3%	83^rd
1910 Jan-Feb	7	2	28.6%	37^th
1910 Mar-May	34	14	41.2%	63^rd
1910 Jun-Jun	40	40	100.0%	83^rd
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	50	2	4.0%	13^th
1911 May-Aug	78	10	12.8%	41^st
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	32	9	28.1%	67^th
1912 Apr-Jul	96	39	40.6%	67^th
1912 Aug-Aug	42	26	61.9%	91^st
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	104	59	56.7%	92^nd
1913 Apr-Jul	37	27	73.0%	94^th
1913 Aug-Nov	107	90	84.1%	94^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	1	100.0%	75^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	56	19	33.9%	78^th
1914 Mar-May	55	28	50.9%	78^th
1914 Jun-Aug	119	64	53.8%	72^nd
1914 Sep-Oct	63	30	47.6%	58^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	111	58	52.3%	85^th
1913 Mar-Mar	4	1	25.0%	53^rd
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	39	18	46.2%	84^th
1916 Mar-May	100	31	31.0%	57^th
1916 Jun-Aug	84	78	92.9%	96^th
1916 Sep-Sep	13	8	61.5%	69^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	151	82	54.3%	90^th
1917 Apr-Jun	56	32	57.1%	92^nd
1917 Jul-Sep	102	22	21.6%	61^st
1917 Oct-Oct	9	1	11.1%	48^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	9	26.5%	61^st
1918 Mar-May	54	31	57.4%	85^th
1918 Jun-Aug	40	11	27.5%	54^th
1918 Sep-Nov	18	14	77.8%	87^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	52	37	71.2%	89^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