William Allen, former Senator from Nebraska

Dates	Title	Representing
1899-1901	Senator	Nebraska
1893-1899	Senator	Nebraska

Voting Record

From Apr 1893 to Mar 1901, Allen missed 387 of 1,264 roll call votes, which is 30.6%. This is worse than the median of 28.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1901. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1893 Aug-Oct	73	27	37.0%	53^rd
1894 Jan-Mar	30	4	13.3%	23^rd
1894 Apr-Jul	315	70	22.2%	39^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	11	55.0%	68^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	95	18	18.9%	29^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	6	100.0%	69^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	36	6	16.7%	34^th
1896 Mar-May	63	7	11.1%	15^th
1896 Jun-Jun	24	16	66.7%	76^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	71	13	18.3%	17^th
1897 Mar-Jul	196	95	48.5%	75^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	25	1	4.0%	11^th
1898 Mar-May	51	5	9.8%	16^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	17	32.1%	74^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	50	23	46.0%	79^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	16	11	68.8%	96^th
1900 Mar-May	53	29	54.7%	79^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	3	25.0%	47^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	74	24	32.4%	68^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	64^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