Dayton was a senator from New Jersey and was a Whig. He served from 1845 to 1851.
He was previously a senator from New Jersey as a Whig from 1842 to 1845.
![Photo of Sen. William Dayton [W-NJ, 1845-1851]](/static/legislator-photos/403298-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Feb 1842 to Mar 1851, Dayton missed 543 of 1,852 roll call votes, which is 29.3%. This is worse than the median of 19.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1851. 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
