William Wells, former Senator from Delaware

Dates	Title	Representing
1813-1817	Senator	Delaware
1799-1805	Senator	Delaware

Voting Record

From Dec 1798 to Mar 1817, Wells missed 223 of 786 roll call votes, which is 28.4%. This is worse than the median of 11.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1817. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1798-Mar 1799	27	3	11.1%	0^th
Dec 1799-May 1800	81	13	16.0%	0^th
1801 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	0^th
Dec 1801-May 1802	60	9	15.0%	0^th
Dec 1802-Mar 1803	27	2	7.4%	0^th
1801 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Oct 1803-Mar 1804	104	47	45.2%	67^th
1813 Jun-Aug	61	24	39.3%	87^th
Dec 1813-Apr 1814	89	28	31.5%	88^th
1814 Sep-Nov	18	17	94.4%	92^nd
Dec 1814-Feb 1815	86	31	36.0%	89^th
1815 Mar-Mar	6	1	16.7%	54^th
Dec 1815-Apr 1816	134	38	28.4%	67^th
Dec 1816-Mar 1817	53	9	17.0%	69^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