William Brown Jr., former Representative from West Virginia's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1915-1917	Representative	West Virginia's 2^nd District
1911-1915	Representative	West Virginia's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Apr 1911 to Dec 1916, Brown missed 270 of 552 roll call votes, which is 48.9%. This is worse than the median of 24.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1916. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1911 Apr-Aug	47	6	12.8%	43^rd
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	58	14	24.1%	50^th
1912 Apr-Jul	57	32	56.1%	86^th
1912 Aug-Aug	29	6	20.7%	40^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	61	50	82.0%	99^th
1913 Apr-Jul	22	3	13.6%	16^th
1913 Aug-Nov	43	23	53.5%	41^st
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	24	10	41.7%	84^th
1914 Mar-May	34	25	73.5%	97^th
1914 Jun-Aug	62	42	67.7%	76^th
1914 Sep-Oct	28	15	53.6%	74^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	66	36	54.5%	88^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	16	5	31.3%	84^th
1916 Mar-May	4	3	75.0%	99^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	1	0	0.0%	0^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