Hamilton was a senator from Maryland and was a Democrat. He served from 1869 to 1875.
He was previously the representative for Maryland’s 5th congressional district as a Democrat from 1853 to 1855; the representative for Maryland’s 2nd congressional district as a Democrat from 1851 to 1853; and the representative for Maryland’s 2nd congressional district as a Democrat from 1849 to 1851.
![Photo of Sen. William Hamilton [D-MD, 1869-1875]](/static/legislator-photos/405000-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1869 to Mar 1875, Hamilton missed 628 of 1,965 roll call votes, which is 32.0%. This is on par with the median of 31.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1875. 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
