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Sen. Samuel White

Former Senator from Delaware, Federalist

White, a Federalist, was a senator from Delaware from 1803 to 1809.

He was previously a senator from Delaware (1801-1803).

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Voting Record

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From Mar 1801 to Mar 1809, White missed 81 of 417 roll call votes, which is 19.4%. This is worse than the median of 12.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1809. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1801-May 1802	60	14	23.3%	57^th
Dec 1802-Mar 1803	27	4	14.8%	57^th
1801 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Oct 1803-Mar 1804	104	32	30.8%	78^th
Nov 1804-Mar 1805	46	12	26.1%	83^rd
Dec 1805-Apr 1806	68	9	13.2%	61^st
Dec 1806-Mar 1807	20	2	10.0%	52^nd
1807 Dec-Dec	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1808 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	44^th
1808 Apr-Apr	20	2	10.0%	38^th
Dec 1808-Mar 1809	42	4	9.5%	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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