Haywood was a senator from North Carolina and was a Democrat. He served from 1843 to 1847.
![Photo of Sen. William Haywood [D-NC, 1843-1847]](/static/legislator-photos/405278-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1844 to Jul 1846, Haywood missed 89 of 492 roll call votes, which is 18.1%. This is on par with the median of 16.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 1846. 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
