Rep. William Chappell Jr.

Former Representative from Florida's 4^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1969-1988	Representative	Florida's 4^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Chappell was a centrist Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Chappell’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Chappell to other members of the House of Representatives in the 100^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Jan 1969 to Oct 1988, Chappell missed 1,217 of 9,627 roll call votes, which is 12.6%. This is worse than the median of 5.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1988. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1969 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.3%	51^st
1969 Apr-Jun	27	4	14.8%	77^th
1969 Jul-Sep	43	7	16.3%	82^nd
1969 Oct-Dec	88	10	11.4%	54^th
1970 Jan-Mar	35	3	8.6%	42^nd
1970 Apr-Jun	74	5	6.8%	22^nd
1970 Jul-Sep	75	12	16.0%	65^th
1970 Oct-Dec	79	9	11.4%	46^th
1971 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	29^th
1971 Apr-Jun	90	11	12.2%	47^th
1971 Jul-Sep	69	7	10.1%	60^th
1971 Oct-Dec	131	32	24.4%	87^th
1972 Jan-Mar	64	10	15.6%	74^th
1972 Apr-Jun	111	12	10.8%	55^th
1972 Jul-Sep	100	9	9.0%	56^th
1972 Oct-Oct	47	18	38.3%	88^th
1973 Jan-Mar	34	5	14.7%	74^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	14	7.4%	46^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	6	4.6%	47^th
1973 Oct-Dec	180	10	5.6%	42^nd
1974 Jan-Mar	77	8	10.4%	56^th
1974 Apr-Jun	168	22	13.1%	65^th
1974 Jul-Sep	148	9	6.1%	60^th
1974 Oct-Dec	139	18	12.9%	68^th
1975 Jan-Mar	65	19	29.2%	97^th
1975 Apr-Jun	195	20	10.3%	72^nd
1975 Jul-Sep	143	2	1.4%	21^st
1975 Oct-Dec	183	16	8.7%	79^th
1976 Jan-Mar	102	10	9.8%	70^th
1976 Apr-Jun	257	36	14.0%	77^th
1976 Jul-Sep	268	72	26.9%	93^rd
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	97	12	12.4%	83^rd
1977 Apr-Jun	270	27	10.0%	71^st
1977 Jul-Sep	187	41	21.9%	95^th
1977 Oct-Dec	130	8	6.2%	59^th
1978 Jan-Mar	146	39	26.7%	97^th
1978 Apr-Jun	295	25	8.5%	57^th
1978 Jul-Sep	298	24	8.1%	55^th
1978 Oct-Oct	68	14	20.6%	88^th
1979 Jan-Mar	63	19	30.2%	94^th
1979 Apr-Jun	215	24	11.2%	77^th
1979 Jul-Sep	196	25	12.8%	82^nd
1979 Oct-Dec	189	27	14.3%	73^rd
1980 Jan-Mar	146	26	17.8%	82^nd
1980 Apr-Jun	194	14	7.2%	50^th
1980 Jul-Sep	187	22	11.8%	72^nd
1980 Oct-Dec	66	11	16.7%	74^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	86	12	14.0%	82^nd
1981 Jul-Sep	105	9	8.6%	75^th
1981 Oct-Dec	142	13	9.2%	66^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	6	12.5%	68^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	8	6.7%	66^th
1982 Jul-Sep	188	100	53.2%	100^th
1982 Oct-Dec	98	33	33.7%	96^th
1983 Jan-Mar	42	6	14.3%	82^nd
1983 Apr-Jun	182	35	19.2%	95^th
1983 Jul-Sep	130	4	3.1%	41^st
1983 Oct-Nov	141	20	14.2%	89^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	12	22.6%	91^st
1984 Apr-Jun	222	21	9.5%	69^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	6	6.3%	59^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	29^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	16	10.4%	84^th
1985 Jul-Sep	99	11	11.1%	88^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	8	5.4%	62^nd
1986 Jan-Mar	59	16	27.1%	96^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	6	4.7%	60^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	18	9.0%	81^st
1986 Oct-Oct	60	4	6.7%	63^rd
1987 Jan-Mar	39	3	7.7%	70^th
1987 Apr-Jun	185	7	3.8%	48^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	8	8.4%	77^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	17	10.2%	75^th
1988 Feb-Mar	49	5	10.2%	72^nd
1988 Apr-Jun	161	16	9.9%	81^st
1988 Jul-Sep	152	13	8.6%	73^rd
1988 Oct-Oct	89	7	7.9%	70^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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. William Chappell [D-FL4, 1969-1988] leaves office as Representative for Florida's 4th congressional district

Oct 22, 1988

Elections and Offices

Rep. William Chappell [D-FL4, 1969-1988] takes office as Representative for Florida's 4th congressional district

Jan 03, 1969