Faulkner was a senator from West Virginia and was a Democrat. He served from 1893 to 1899.
He was previously a senator from West Virginia as a Democrat from 1887 to 1893.
![Photo of Sen. Charles Faulkner [D-WV, 1893-1899]](/static/legislator-photos/404005-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1887 to Mar 1899, Faulkner missed 951 of 2,263 roll call votes, which is 42.0%. This is worse than the median of 33.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1899. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- 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
