Umstead was a senator from North Carolina and was a Democrat. He served from 1946 to 1948.
He was previously the representative for North Carolina’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1933 to 1938.
![Photo of Sen. William Umstead [D-NC, 1946-1948]](/data/photos/411029-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1947 to Aug 1948, Umstead missed 12 of 245 roll call votes, which is 4.9%. This is better than the median of 9.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1948. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
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
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