William Crain, former Representative from Texas's 11th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1897	Representative	Texas's 11^th District
1893-1895	Representative	Texas's 11^th District
1891-1893	Representative	Texas's 7^th District
1889-1891	Representative	Texas's 7^th District
1887-1889	Representative	Texas's 7^th District
1885-1887	Representative	Texas's 7^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1885 to Feb 1896, Crain missed 968 of 1,877 roll call votes, which is 51.6%. This is worse than the median of 36.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1896. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	37	11	29.7%	68^th
1886 Apr-Jul	155	84	54.2%	92^nd
1886 Aug-Aug	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	103	29	28.2%	69^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	39	10	25.6%	55^th
1888 Mar-May	105	72	68.6%	94^th
1888 Jun-Aug	47	32	68.1%	82^nd
1888 Sep-Oct	16	13	81.3%	67^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	113	57	50.4%	90^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	70	42	60.0%	91^st
1890 Mar-May	109	60	55.0%	94^th
1890 Jun-Aug	169	71	42.0%	57^th
1890 Sep-Sep	53	29	54.7%	65^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	76	43.9%	74^th
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	58	30	51.7%	82^nd
1892 Apr-Jul	159	111	69.8%	89^th
1892 Aug-Aug	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	79	48	60.8%	87^th
1893 Aug-Nov	67	16	23.9%	26^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	77	57.9%	46^th
1894 Apr-Jul	101	52	51.5%	54^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	14	70.0%	87^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	30	62.5%	96^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	13	4	30.8%	75^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