Rufus King, former Senator for New York

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King was a senator from New York and was a Federalist. He served from 1819 to 1825.

He was previously a senator from New York as a Federalist from 1813 to 1819; a senator from New York as a Federalist from 1795 to 1797; and a senator from New York as a Federalist from 1789 to 1795.

Photo of Sen. Rufus King [F-NY, 1819-1825]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Aug 1789 to Mar 1825, King missed 139 of 1,258 roll call votes, which is 11.0%. This is on par with the median of 10.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1825. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1789 Jul-Aug	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1789 Sep-Sep	11	0	0.0%	0^th
1790 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1790 May-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1790 Jul-Aug	28	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1790-Mar 1791	18	1	5.6%	0^th
1791 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1792 Jan-Mar	28	1	3.6%	0^th
1792 Apr-May	8	5	62.5%	0^th
Dec 1792-Mar 1793	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1794 Jan-Feb	14	1	7.1%	50^th
1794 Mar-May	38	6	15.8%	50^th
1794 Jun-Jun	8	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1794-Mar 1795	19	2	10.5%	0^th
Dec 1795-Jan 1796	7	2	28.6%	0^th
1796 Mar-May	36	4	11.1%	0^th
1795 Jun-Jun	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1813 Jun-Aug	63	3	4.8%	0^th
Dec 1813-Apr 1814	89	16	18.0%	33^rd
1814 Sep-Nov	19	10	52.6%	67^th
Dec 1814-Feb 1815	86	2	2.3%	20^th
1815 Mar-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1815-Apr 1816	136	15	11.0%	50^th
Dec 1816-Mar 1817	53	15	28.3%	88^th
Dec 1817-Apr 1818	67	3	4.5%	0^th
Dec 1818-Mar 1819	65	16	24.6%	88^th
1820 Jan-May	68	6	8.8%	23^rd
Dec 1820-Mar 1821	52	3	5.8%	18^th
1822 Jan-May	62	4	6.5%	39^th
Dec 1822-Mar 1823	29	2	6.9%	25^th
Dec 1823-May 1824	130	14	10.8%	55^th
Dec 1824-Mar 1825	48	8	16.7%	65^th

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

Sen. Rufus King

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Missed Votes

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