Sen. Charles Van Wyck

Former Senator from Nebraska, Republican

Van Wyck, a Republican, was a senator from Nebraska from 1881 to 1887.

He was previously the representative for New York's 11^th congressional district (1867-1871); the representative for New York's 10^th congressional district (1861-1863); and the representative for New York's 10^th congressional district (1859-1861).

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Voting Record

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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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	96	52	54.2%	82^nd
1882 Apr-Jul	211	101	47.9%	75^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	14	36.8%	70^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	401	213	53.1%	82^nd
1881 Mar-Mar	178	134	75.3%	94^th
1881 Oct-Oct	61	52	85.2%	78^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	16	24.6%	39^th
1884 Mar-May	114	42	36.8%	52^nd
1884 Jun-Jul	78	35	44.9%	63^rd
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	171	41	24.0%	35^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	63	20	31.7%	58^th
1886 Apr-Jul	234	119	50.9%	76^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	8	66.7%	74^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	143	62	43.4%	64^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	3	33.3%	60^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

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