Sen. Clarence Watson

Former Senator from West Virginia, Democrat

Watson, a Democrat, was a senator from West Virginia from 1911 to 1913.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Feb 1911 to Mar 1913, Watson missed 208 of 430 roll call votes, which is 48.4%. This is much worse than the median of 29.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1913. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	34	7	20.6%	41^st
1911 May-Aug	94	9	9.6%	13^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	35	9	25.7%	55^th
1912 Apr-Jul	105	38	36.2%	49^th
1912 Aug-Aug	51	44	86.3%	82^nd
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	111	101	91.0%	97^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election 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

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Sen. Clarence Watson

Voting Record

Missed Votes

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