Sen. John Wales

Former Senator from Delaware, Whig

Wales, a Whig, was a senator from Delaware from 1849 to 1851.

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Voting Record

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From Feb 1849 to Mar 1851, Wales missed 72 of 529 roll call votes, which is 13.6%. This is better than the median of 19.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1851. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	30	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	22	2	9.1%	26^th
1850 Mar-May	64	30	46.9%	84^th
1850 Jun-Aug	154	22	14.3%	48^th
1850 Sep-Sep	108	2	1.9%	2^nd
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	141	16	11.3%	27^th
1849 Mar-Mar	10	0	0.0%	0^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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