William Washburn, former Senator from Minnesota

Dates	Title	Representing
1889-1895	Senator	Minnesota
1883-1885	Representative	Minnesota's 4^th District
1881-1883	Representative	Minnesota's 3^rd District
1879-1881	Representative	Minnesota's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Mar 1889 to Mar 1895, Washburn missed 433 of 1,241 roll call votes, which is 34.9%. This is worse than the median of 31.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1895. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	27	15	55.6%	82^nd
1890 Mar-May	95	27	28.4%	40^th
1890 Jun-Aug	147	71	48.3%	66^th
1890 Sep-Sep	76	23	30.3%	57^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	143	19	13.3%	8^th
1889 Mar-Apr	5	4	80.0%	85^th
1892 Jan-Mar	26	10	38.5%	55^th
1892 Apr-Jul	77	24	31.2%	31^st
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	104	26	25.0%	31^st
1893 Aug-Oct	74	8	10.8%	14^th
1894 Jan-Mar	29	7	24.1%	44^th
1894 Apr-Jul	317	125	39.4%	60^th
1894 Aug-Aug	21	12	57.1%	74^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	95	58	61.1%	86^th
1893 Apr-Apr	5	4	80.0%	67^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