William Stewart, former Senator from Nevada

Dates	Title	Representing
1899-1905	Senator	Nevada
1893-1899	Senator	Nevada
1887-1893	Senator	Nevada
1864-1875	Senator	Nevada

Voting Record

From Feb 1865 to Mar 1905, Stewart missed 1,526 of 5,865 roll call votes, which is 26.0%. This is better than the median of 26.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1905. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	133	21	15.8%	0^th
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	39	1	2.6%	0^th
1866 Mar-May	102	19	18.6%	0^th
1866 Jun-Jul	136	28	20.6%	0^th
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	217	46	21.2%	0^th
1865 Mar-Mar	6	2	33.3%	0^th
1867 Mar-Apr	98	20	20.4%	0^th
1867 Jul-Jul	33	33	100.0%	0^th
1867 Nov-Nov	4	1	25.0%	0^th
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	54	9	16.7%	0^th
1868 Mar-May	180	23	12.8%	0^th
1868 Jun-Jul	187	25	13.4%	0^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	1	100.0%	0^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	154	13	8.4%	0^th
1869 Mar-Apr	58	14	24.1%	0^th
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	81	5	6.2%	0^th
1870 Mar-May	167	12	7.2%	0^th
1870 Jun-Jul	201	22	10.9%	0^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	193	23	11.9%	0^th
1869 Apr-Apr	25	7	28.0%	0^th
1871 Mar-Apr	60	11	18.3%	0^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	79	58	73.4%	0^th
1872 Mar-May	339	166	49.0%	0^th
1872 Jun-Jun	91	13	14.3%	0^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	193	37	19.2%	0^th
1871 May-May	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	57	32	56.1%	67^th
1874 Mar-May	112	31	27.7%	33^rd
1874 Jun-Jun	81	43	53.1%	67^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	147	54	36.7%	67^th
1873 Mar-Mar	16	7	43.8%	67^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	50	16	32.0%	70^th
1888 Mar-May	62	7	11.3%	15^th
1888 Jun-Aug	62	5	8.1%	10^th
1888 Sep-Oct	14	1	7.1%	20^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	192	26	13.5%	5^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	31	9	29.0%	50^th
1890 Mar-May	113	22	19.5%	35^th
1890 Jun-Aug	149	55	36.9%	67^th
1890 Sep-Sep	77	2	2.6%	0^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	27	18.9%	24^th
1889 Mar-Apr	9	2	22.2%	65^th
1892 Jan-Mar	26	9	34.6%	50^th
1892 Apr-Jul	77	13	16.9%	25^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	105	20	19.0%	25^th
1893 Aug-Oct	74	28	37.8%	60^th
1894 Jan-Mar	30	4	13.3%	23^rd
1894 Apr-Jul	319	242	75.9%	96^th
1894 Aug-Aug	21	4	19.0%	31^st
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	99	27	27.3%	54^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	5	83.3%	63^rd
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	36	15	41.7%	82^nd
1896 Mar-May	65	24	36.9%	62^nd
1896 Jun-Jun	23	8	34.8%	59^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	71	9	12.7%	6^th
1897 Mar-Jul	200	60	30.0%	49^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	25	2	8.0%	24^th
1898 Mar-May	51	10	19.6%	40^th
1898 Jun-Jul	52	20	38.5%	79^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	48	15	31.3%	67^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	1	5.0%	14^th
1900 Mar-May	56	11	19.6%	30^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	4	33.3%	67^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	78	2	2.6%	4^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	1	3.8%	16^th
1902 Mar-May	49	22	44.9%	86^th
1902 Jun-Jun	23	5	21.7%	68^th
1903 Jan-Mar	18	6	33.3%	55^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	64^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	5	13.9%	12^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	4	7.1%	9^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