Sen. Willard Saulsbury Jr.

Former Senator for Delaware

Saulsbury was a senator from Delaware and was a Democrat. He served from 1913 to 1919.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Willard Saulsbury Jr. [D-DE, 1913-1919]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1913 to Mar 1919, Saulsbury missed 571 of 1,361 roll call votes, which is 42.0%. This is much worse than the median of 29.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1919. 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
1913 Apr-Jul	38	10	26.3%	63^rd
1913 Aug-Nov	109	29	26.6%	58^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	59	11	18.6%	40^th
1914 Mar-May	58	30	51.7%	76^th
1914 Jun-Aug	121	59	48.8%	64^th
1914 Sep-Oct	64	44	68.8%	72^nd
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	42	35.9%	62^nd
1913 Mar-Mar	5	1	20.0%	23^rd
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	40	17	42.5%	78^th
1916 Mar-May	106	58	54.7%	81^st
1916 Jun-Aug	88	64	72.7%	92^nd
1916 Sep-Sep	13	10	76.9%	82^nd
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	159	54	34.0%	64^th
1917 Apr-Jun	63	22	34.9%	79^th
1917 Jul-Sep	103	26	25.2%	69^th
1917 Oct-Oct	11	4	36.4%	64^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	6	17.6%	39^th
1918 Mar-May	54	21	38.9%	60^th
1918 Jun-Aug	42	16	38.1%	62^nd
1918 Sep-Nov	20	18	90.0%	94^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	55	29	52.7%	78^th
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^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. Willard Saulsbury Jr.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources