William Sprague, former Senator from Rhode Island

Dates	Title	Representing
1842-1845	Senator	Rhode Island
1835-1837	Representative	Rhode Island

Voting Record

From Feb 1842 to Jan 1844, Sprague missed 135 of 469 roll call votes, which is 28.8%. This is worse than the median of 16.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 1844. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	17	9	52.9%	92^nd
1842 Apr-Jul	194	51	26.3%	81^st
1842 Aug-Aug	127	33	26.0%	78^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	127	38	29.9%	78^th
1844 Jan-Feb	4	4	100.0%	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