William Wright, former Senator from New Jersey

Dates	Title	Representing
1863-1867	Senator	New Jersey
1853-1859	Senator	New Jersey
1845-1847	Representative	New Jersey's 5^th District
1843-1845	Representative	New Jersey's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1853 to Jan 1867, Wright missed 1,409 of 2,559 roll call votes, which is 55.1%. This is worse than the median of 23.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 1867. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1853-Mar 1854	50	23	46.0%	80^th
1854 Apr-Jul	229	180	78.6%	80^th
1854 Aug-Aug	64	64	100.0%	80^th
Dec 1854-Mar 1855	178	66	37.1%	83^rd
1853 Mar-Apr	22	9	40.9%	25^th
1856 Jan-Mar	32	26	81.3%	90^th
1856 Apr-Jul	131	51	38.9%	60^th
1856 Aug-Aug	124	19	15.3%	40^th
1856 Aug-Aug	16	1	6.3%	20^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	143	62	43.4%	80^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	57	13	22.8%	71^st
1858 Mar-May	216	33	15.3%	43^rd
1858 Jun-Jun	116	13	11.2%	7^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	266	170	63.9%	86^th
1857 Mar-Mar	29	8	27.6%	62^nd
1858 Jun-Jun	9	1	11.1%	21^st
Dec 1863-Feb 1864	69	17	24.6%	80^th
1864 Mar-May	166	142	85.5%	98^th
1864 Jun-Jul	180	180	100.0%	98^th
Dec 1864-Mar 1865	161	63	39.1%	88^th
1863 Mar-Mar	19	2	10.5%	62^nd
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	37	25	67.6%	95^th
1866 Mar-May	102	101	99.0%	94^th
1866 Jun-Jul	136	136	100.0%	91^st
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1865 Mar-Mar	6	4	66.7%	80^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