King was Vice President of the United States and was a Democratic. He served from 1853 to 1853.
He was previously a senator from Alabama as a Democrat from 1848 to 1852; a senator from Alabama as a Democrat from 1835 to 1844; a senator from Alabama as a Jackson from 1829 to 1835; a senator from Alabama as a Jackson from 1823 to 1829; a senator from Alabama as a Republican from 1819 to 1823; the representative for North Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Republican from 1815 to 1816; and the representative for North Carolina’s 5th congressional district as a Republican from 1811 to 1815.
![Photo of Vice President William Rufus de Vane King [D, 1853-1853]](/static/legislator-photos/406377-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1820 to Jan 1853, King missed 491 of 4,770 roll call votes, which is 10.3%. This is better than the median of 22.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 1853. 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
