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Sen. William Umstead

Former Senator from North Carolina, Democrat

Umstead, a Democrat, was a senator from North Carolina from 1946 to 1948.

He was previously the representative for North Carolina's 6^th congressional district (1933-1938).

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Voting Record

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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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1947 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Apr-Jun	57	2	3.5%	37^th
1947 Jul-Jul	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Nov-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Feb-Mar	28	3	10.7%	77^th
1948 Apr-Jun	74	7	9.5%	70^th
1948 Aug-Aug	8	0	0.0%	0^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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