William Windom, former Senator from Minnesota

Dates	Title	Representing
1881-1883	Senator	Minnesota
1872-1881	Senator	Minnesota
1870-1871	Senator	Minnesota
1865-1869	Representative	Minnesota's 1^st District
1863-1865	Representative	Minnesota's 1^st District
1861-1863	Representative	Minnesota
1859-1861	Representative	Minnesota

Voting Record

From Dec 1870 to Mar 1883, Windom missed 991 of 3,438 roll call votes, which is 28.8%. This is better than the median of 28.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1883. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	34	27	79.4%	89^th
1871 Mar-Apr	60	12	20.0%	62^nd
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	79	26	32.9%	69^th
1872 Mar-May	335	91	27.2%	14^th
1872 Jun-Jun	93	56	60.2%	86^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	192	37	19.3%	29^th
1871 May-May	16	2	12.5%	46^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	56	23	41.1%	81^st
1874 Mar-May	114	26	22.8%	38^th
1874 Jun-Jun	80	14	17.5%	19^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	146	34	23.3%	50^th
1873 Mar-Mar	16	7	43.8%	63^rd
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	85	11	12.9%	29^th
1876 Apr-Jul	176	39	22.2%	35^th
1876 Aug-Aug	46	9	19.6%	43^rd
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	76	19	25.0%	50^th
1875 Mar-Mar	18	7	38.9%	83^rd
1877 Oct-Dec	62	50	80.6%	83^rd
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	20	29.0%	70^th
1878 Mar-May	107	22	20.6%	33^rd
1878 Jun-Jun	83	21	25.3%	48^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	229	54	23.6%	40^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	5	33.3%	65^th
1879 Mar-Jul	165	57	34.5%	64^th
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	47	11	23.4%	47^th
1880 Mar-May	123	20	16.3%	21^st
1880 Jun-Jun	37	20	54.1%	73^rd
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	162	49	30.2%	54^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	92	26	28.3%	57^th
1882 Apr-Jul	204	33	16.2%	24^th
1882 Aug-Aug	35	4	11.4%	29^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	386	159	41.2%	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