Van Wyck was a senator from Nebraska and was a Republican. He served from 1881 to 1887.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 11th congressional district as a Republican from 1867 to 1871; the representative for New York’s 10th congressional district as a Republican from 1861 to 1863; and the representative for New York’s 10th congressional district as a Republican from 1859 to 1861.
![Photo of Sen. Charles Van Wyck [R-NE, 1881-1887]](/static/legislator-photos/411109-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1881 to Mar 1887, Van Wyck missed 912 of 1,874 roll call votes, which is 48.7%. This is worse than the median of 30.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1887. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
