Christopher Williams, former Representative from Tennessee's 11th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1851-1853	Representative	Tennessee's 11^th District
1849-1851	Representative	Tennessee's 11^th District
1839-1843	Representative	Tennessee's 13^th District
1837-1839	Representative	Tennessee's 13^th District

Voting Record

From Sep 1837 to Mar 1853, Williams missed 639 of 3,197 roll call votes, which is 20.0%. This is better than the median of 26.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1853. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1837 Sep-Oct	54	2	3.7%	0^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	9	17.3%	36^th
1838 Mar-May	120	31	25.8%	36^th
1838 Jun-Jul	100	11	11.0%	8^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	142	17	12.0%	0^th
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	165	30	18.2%	56^th
1840 Mar-May	250	85	34.0%	33^rd
1840 Jun-Jul	207	55	26.6%	20^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	121	21	17.4%	0^th
1841 May-Sep	257	59	23.0%	44^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	202	14	6.9%	0^th
1842 Apr-Jul	216	40	18.5%	35^th
1842 Aug-Aug	116	26	22.4%	59^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	38	22.1%	44^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	20	18.5%	58^th
1850 Mar-May	68	6	8.8%	13^th
1850 Jun-Aug	146	10	6.8%	19^th
1850 Sep-Sep	117	12	10.3%	42^nd
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	13	9.8%	12^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	95	10	10.5%	16^th
1852 Apr-Jul	178	31	17.4%	21^st
1852 Aug-Aug	64	61	95.3%	94^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	38	33.3%	56^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