Giles was a senator from Virginia and was a Republican. He served from 1811 to 1815.
He was previously a senator from Virginia as a Republican from 1804 to 1811; a senator from Virginia as a Republican from 1804 to 1804; the representative for Virginia’s 9th congressional district as a Republican from 1801 to 1803; the representative for Virginia’s 9th congressional district as a Republican from 1795 to 1798; the representative for Virginia’s 9th congressional district as a Republican from 1793 to 1795; the representative for Virginia’s 9th congressional district as a Republican from 1791 to 1793; and the representative for Virginia’s 9th congressional district as a Republican from 1790 to 1791.
![Photo of Sen. William Branch Giles [R-VA, 1811-1815]](/static/legislator-photos/404548-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Nov 1804 to Mar 1815, Giles missed 326 of 834 roll call votes, which is 39.1%. This is much worse than the median of 14.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1815. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
