Sen. David Wilmot

Former Senator from Pennsylvania, Republican

Wilmot, a Republican, was a senator from Pennsylvania from 1861 to 1863.

He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania's 12^th congressional district (1849-1851; Democrat); the representative for Pennsylvania's 12^th congressional district (1847-1849; Democrat); and the representative for Pennsylvania's 12^th congressional district (1845-1847; Democrat).

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Voting Record

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From Mar 1861 to Mar 1863, Wilmot missed 281 of 789 roll call votes, which is 35.6%. This is worse than the median of 20.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1863. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1861 Jul-Aug	79	26	32.9%	76^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	73	44	60.3%	90^th
1862 Mar-May	146	55	37.7%	78^th
1862 Jun-Jul	214	68	31.8%	70^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	247	84	34.0%	75^th
1861 Mar-Mar	30	4	13.3%	44^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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