Henry Boutell, former Representative from Illinois's 9th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1911	Representative	Illinois's 9^th District
1905-1907	Representative	Illinois's 9^th District
1903-1905	Representative	Illinois's 9^th District
1901-1903	Representative	Illinois's 6^th District
1899-1901	Representative	Illinois's 6^th District
1897-1899	Representative	Illinois's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1897 to Mar 1911, Boutell missed 351 of 1,193 roll call votes, which is 29.4%. This is worse than the median of 26.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1911. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	29	15	51.7%	86^th
1898 Mar-May	53	1	1.9%	0^th
1898 Jun-Jul	25	16	64.0%	87^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	25	67.6%	92^nd
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	19	1	5.3%	5^th
1900 Mar-May	49	1	2.0%	2^nd
1900 Jun-Jun	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	1	1.6%	0^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	17	1	5.9%	24^th
1902 Mar-May	22	5	22.7%	28^th
1902 Jun-Jul	27	12	44.4%	71^st
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	113	15	13.3%	24^th
1903 Nov-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	17	34.7%	65^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	2	6.3%	8^th
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	25	0	0.0%	0^th
1906 Mar-May	55	10	18.2%	27^th
1906 Jun-Jun	20	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	33	21	63.6%	92^nd
Dec 1907-May 1908	269	137	50.9%	79^th
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	42	15	35.7%	70^th
1909 Mar-Aug	35	6	17.1%	66^th
Dec 1909-Feb 1910	18	4	22.2%	43^rd
1910 Mar-May	60	24	40.0%	72^nd
1910 Jun-Jun	16	4	25.0%	61^st
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	65	18	27.7%	51^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