Scott was a senator from North Carolina and was a Democrat. He served from 1954 to 1958.
![Photo of Sen. William Scott [D-NC, 1954-1958]](/static/legislator-photos/409692-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1954 to Apr 1958, Scott missed 45 of 376 roll call votes, which is 12.0%. This is much worse than the median of 6.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Apr 1958. 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
