John Nelson, former Representative from Wisconsin's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1931-1933	Representative	Wisconsin's 3^rd District
1927-1931	Representative	Wisconsin's 3^rd District
1925-1927	Representative	Wisconsin's 3^rd District
1923-1925	Representative	Wisconsin's 3^rd District
1921-1923	Representative	Wisconsin's 3^rd District
1915-1919	Representative	Wisconsin's 3^rd District
1913-1915	Representative	Wisconsin's 3^rd District
1907-1913	Representative	Wisconsin's 2^nd District
1905-1907	Representative	Wisconsin's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1906 to Mar 1933, Nelson missed 656 of 2,396 roll call votes, which is 27.4%. This is worse than the median of 13.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1933. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	34	1	2.9%	23^rd
Dec 1907-May 1908	269	76	28.3%	65^th
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	41	6	14.6%	35^th
1909 Mar-Aug	36	7	19.4%	89^th
Dec 1909-Feb 1910	18	1	5.6%	21^st
1910 Mar-May	60	4	6.7%	16^th
1910 Jun-Jun	18	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	63	8	12.7%	53^rd
1911 Apr-Aug	45	8	17.8%	68^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	58	5	8.6%	34^th
1912 Apr-Jul	57	19	33.3%	69^th
1912 Aug-Aug	29	29	100.0%	83^rd
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	64	12	18.8%	45^th
1913 Apr-Jul	22	18	81.8%	96^th
1913 Aug-Nov	43	11	25.6%	11^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	24	4	16.7%	58^th
1914 Mar-May	34	14	41.2%	91^st
1914 Jun-Aug	62	29	46.8%	74^th
1914 Sep-Oct	29	8	27.6%	44^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	66	17	25.8%	74^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	15	4	26.7%	85^th
1916 Mar-May	52	10	19.2%	73^rd
1916 Jun-Aug	23	5	21.7%	49^th
1916 Sep-Sep	3	1	33.3%	58^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	62	15	24.2%	82^nd
1917 Apr-Jun	35	9	25.7%	90^th
1917 Jul-Sep	10	5	50.0%	83^rd
1917 Oct-Oct	3	3	100.0%	83^rd
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	33	13	39.4%	92^nd
1918 Mar-May	63	7	11.1%	34^th
1918 Jun-Aug	33	22	66.7%	92^nd
1918 Sep-Oct	14	11	78.6%	89^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	63	22	34.9%	86^th
1921 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1921 Jul-Aug	48	5	10.4%	31^st
1921 Oct-Nov	29	3	10.3%	33^rd
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	47	15	31.9%	60^th
1922 Mar-May	46	12	26.1%	58^th
1922 Jun-Aug	54	54	100.0%	97^th
1922 Sep-Sep	11	11	100.0%	84^th
1922 Nov-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	60	8	13.3%	32^nd
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1924 Mar-May	85	13	15.3%	72^nd
1924 Jun-Jun	10	4	40.0%	92^nd
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	54	17	31.5%	98^th
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	20	4	20.0%	96^th
1926 Mar-May	35	4	11.4%	80^th
1926 Jun-Jul	20	3	15.0%	80^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	33	4	12.1%	81^st
Dec 1927-May 1928	51	10	19.6%	69^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	17	5	29.4%	76^th
1929 Apr-Jun	12	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	8	3	37.5%	71^st
1930 Mar-May	23	10	43.5%	90^th
1930 Jun-Jul	17	13	76.5%	95^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	33	8	24.2%	83^rd
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	16	5	31.3%	90^th
1932 Mar-May	37	8	21.6%	83^rd
1932 Jun-Jul	29	19	65.5%	95^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	36	14	38.9%	90^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