Sen. William Scott

Former Senator from North Carolina, Democrat

Scott, a Democrat, was a senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1958.

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Voting Record

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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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	1	3.8%	31^st
1955 Apr-Jun	38	5	13.2%	69^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	1	4.3%	53^rd
1956 Jan-Mar	47	2	4.3%	52^nd
1956 Apr-Jun	50	16	32.0%	95^th
1956 Jul-Jul	33	1	3.0%	52^nd
1957 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.3%	52^nd
1957 Apr-Jun	45	7	15.6%	74^th
1957 Jul-Aug	46	1	2.2%	33^rd
1958 Feb-Mar	38	6	15.8%	82^nd
1958 Apr-Jun	6	4	66.7%	99^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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

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