Sen. William Laird
Former Senator for West Virginia
Laird was a senator from West Virginia and was a Democrat. He served from 1956 to 1956.
![Photo of Sen. William Laird [D-WV, 1956-1956]](/static/legislator-photos/406535-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1956 to Jul 1956, Laird missed 12 of 103 roll call votes, which is 11.7%. This is much worse than the median of 6.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 1956. 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
