Archer was a senator from Virginia and was a Whig. He served from 1841 to 1847.
He was previously the representative for Virginia’s 3rd congressional district as a Jackson from 1833 to 1835; the representative for Virginia’s 3rd congressional district as a Jackson from 1831 to 1833; the representative for Virginia’s 3rd congressional district as a Jackson from 1829 to 1831; the representative for Virginia’s 3rd congressional district as a Jackson from 1827 to 1829; the representative for Virginia’s 3rd congressional district as a Jackson from 1825 to 1827; the representative for Virginia’s 3rd congressional district as a Whig from 1823 to 1825; the representative for Virginia’s 17th congressional district as a Republican from 1821 to 1823; and the representative for Virginia’s 17th congressional district as a Republican from 1819 to 1821.
![Photo of Sen. William Archer [W-VA, 1841-1847]](/static/legislator-photos/400914-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1841 to Mar 1847, Archer missed 218 of 1,510 roll call votes, which is 14.4%. This is on par with the median of 16.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1847. 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.
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
