William Cleary, former Representative from New York's 8th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1925-1927	Representative	New York's 8^th District
1923-1925	Representative	New York's 8^th District
1917-1921	Representative	New York's 8^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1918 to Mar 1927, Cleary missed 140 of 764 roll call votes, which is 18.3%. This is worse than the median of 13.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1927. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1918 Mar-May	54	16	29.6%	72^nd
1918 Jun-Aug	32	7	21.9%	45^th
1918 Sep-Oct	14	2	14.3%	31^st
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	63	15	23.8%	70^th
1919 May-Jul	62	8	12.9%	35^th
1919 Aug-Oct	52	12	23.1%	43^rd
1919 Nov-Nov	16	3	18.8%	46^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	39	15	38.5%	81^st
1920 Mar-May	70	12	17.1%	45^th
1920 Jun-Jun	8	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	91	13	14.3%	53^rd
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	21	1	4.8%	77^th
1924 Mar-May	84	14	16.7%	73^rd
1924 Jun-Jun	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	54	2	3.7%	43^rd
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1926 Mar-May	29	11	37.9%	98^th
1926 Jun-Jul	17	5	29.4%	90^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	27	4	14.8%	79^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