William Upham, former Senator for Vermont

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Upham was a senator from Vermont and was a Whig. He served from 1849 to 1853.

He was previously a senator from Vermont as a Whig from 1843 to 1849.

Photo of Sen. William Upham [W-VT, 1849-1853]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1844 to Jan 1853, Upham missed 468 of 1,776 roll call votes, which is 26.4%. This is on par with the median of 22.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 1853. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1844 Jan-Feb	28	5	17.9%	62^nd
1844 Mar-May	106	49	46.2%	88^th
1844 Jun-Jun	76	20	26.3%	71^st
Dec 1844-Mar 1845	95	2	2.1%	0^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	29	2	6.9%	44^th
1846 Apr-Jul	168	23	13.7%	33^rd
1846 Aug-Aug	50	14	28.0%	75^th
Dec 1846-Mar 1847	126	22	17.5%	62^nd
1845 Mar-Mar	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1847-Mar 1848	82	13	15.9%	45^th
1848 Apr-Jul	116	22	19.0%	39^th
1848 Aug-Aug	66	14	21.2%	50^th
Dec 1848-Mar 1849	80	14	17.5%	51^st
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	22	6	27.3%	81^st
1850 Mar-May	64	49	76.6%	98^th
1850 Jun-Aug	154	13	8.4%	23^rd
1850 Sep-Sep	108	102	94.4%	90^th
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	141	35	24.8%	63^rd
1849 Mar-Mar	10	1	10.0%	34^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	38	13	34.2%	61^st
1852 Apr-Jul	79	8	10.1%	15^th
1852 Aug-Aug	91	31	34.1%	76^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	15	7	46.7%	89^th
1851 Mar-Mar	22	3	13.6%	31^st

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

Sen. William Upham

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Missed Votes

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