Sen. William “Stuart” Symington

Former Senator from Missouri

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	State / District
1959-1976	Senator	Missouri
1953-1958	Senator	Missouri

Sponsorship Analysis

Symington was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Symington’s time serving in the Senate. Symington’s bills had a total of 23 cosponsors in the 94^th Congress.

Use this chart to compare Symington to other members of the Senate in the 94^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bills Sponsored

Some of Symington’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 1953 to Oct 1976, Symington missed 1,076 of 7,112 roll call votes, which is 15.1%. This is worse than the median of 11.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1976. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1953 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Sep	86	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	1	3.8%	50^th
1955 Apr-Jun	38	1	2.6%	22^nd
1955 Jul-Aug	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	46	3	6.5%	89^th
1956 Apr-Jun	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	15	3	20.0%	95^th
1957 Apr-Jun	44	3	6.8%	57^th
1957 Jul-Aug	44	3	6.8%	77^th
1958 Feb-Mar	37	4	10.8%	86^th
1958 Apr-Jun	83	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jul-Aug	75	2	2.7%	50^th
1959 Jan-Apr	56	2	3.6%	69^th
1959 May-Aug	123	9	7.3%	64^th
1959 Sep-Sep	29	3	10.3%	76^th
1960 Jan-Apr	70	24	34.3%	94^th
1960 May-Aug	108	28	25.9%	94^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	2	6.5%	75^th
1961 May-Aug	134	6	4.5%	70^th
1961 Sep-Sep	29	1	3.4%	57^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	53^rd
1962 Apr-Jun	58	10	17.2%	89^th
1962 Jul-Sep	106	15	14.2%	89^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	1	5.6%	61^st
1963 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	69	3	4.3%	53^rd
1963 Jul-Sep	52	7	13.5%	67^th
1963 Oct-Dec	84	3	3.6%	27^th
1964 Jan-Mar	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	130	2	1.5%	69^th
1964 Jul-Sep	101	5	5.0%	47^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	30	1	3.3%	28^th
1965 Apr-Jun	99	25	25.3%	91^st
1965 Jul-Sep	99	5	5.1%	41^st
1965 Oct-Oct	15	3	20.0%	54^th
1966 Jan-Mar	27	1	3.7%	30^th
1966 Apr-Jun	55	6	10.9%	27^th
1966 Jul-Sep	118	9	7.6%	52^nd
1966 Oct-Oct	34	15	44.1%	75^th
1967 Jan-Mar	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	67	2	3.0%	22^nd
1967 Jul-Sep	78	30	38.5%	94^th
1967 Oct-Dec	108	27	25.0%	81^st
1968 Jan-Mar	68	2	2.9%	19^th
1968 Apr-Jun	96	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jul-Sep	88	3	3.4%	9^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	16	59.3%	76^th
1969 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	1	4.2%	22^nd
1969 Jul-Sep	42	2	4.8%	49^th
1969 Oct-Dec	140	90	64.3%	98^th
1970 Jan-Mar	97	9	9.3%	51^st
1970 Apr-Jun	91	4	4.4%	23^rd
1970 Jul-Sep	114	53	46.5%	86^th
1970 Oct-Dec	105	35	33.3%	73^rd
1971 Feb-Mar	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	9	10.1%	30^th
1971 Jul-Sep	108	6	5.6%	22^nd
1971 Oct-Dec	202	20	9.9%	48^th
1972 Jan-Mar	118	0	0.0%	0^th
1972 Apr-Jun	129	1	0.8%	4^th
1972 Jul-Sep	205	5	2.4%	14^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Jan-Mar	67	11	16.4%	68^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	4	2.1%	9^th
1973 Jul-Sep	166	1	0.6%	6^th
1973 Oct-Dec	165	67	40.6%	94^th
1974 Jan-Mar	93	14	15.1%	69^th
1974 Apr-Jun	175	46	26.3%	90^th
1974 Jul-Sep	138	14	10.1%	54^th
1974 Oct-Dec	133	13	9.8%	43^rd
1975 Jan-Mar	116	36	31.0%	98^th
1975 Apr-Jun	139	23	16.5%	74^th
1975 Jul-Sep	166	40	24.1%	92^nd
1975 Oct-Dec	180	17	9.4%	50^th
1976 Jan-Mar	100	23	23.0%	83^rd
1976 Apr-Jun	262	156	59.5%	96^th
1976 Jul-Sep	313	81	25.9%	78^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	8	61.5%	61^st

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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. William “Stuart” Symington [D-MO, 1959-1976] leaves office as Senator from Missouri

Oct 01, 1976

Elections and Offices

Sen. William “Stuart” Symington [D-MO, 1959-1976] takes office as Senator from Missouri

Jan 07, 1959

Elections and Offices

Sen. William “Stuart” Symington [D-MO, 1959-1976] leaves office as Senator from Missouri

Aug 24, 1958

Elections and Offices

Sen. William “Stuart” Symington [D-MO, 1959-1976] takes office as Senator from Missouri

Jan 03, 1953