William Ellis, former Representative from Oregon's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1911	Representative	Oregon's 2^nd District
1895-1899	Representative	Oregon's 2^nd District
1893-1895	Representative	Oregon's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Aug 1893 to Mar 1911, Ellis missed 293 of 1,220 roll call votes, which is 24.0%. This is better than the median of 26.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1911. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1893 Aug-Nov	66	25	37.9%	39^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	73	54.9%	35^th
1894 Apr-Jul	101	50	49.5%	45^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	7	35.0%	23^rd
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	6	12.5%	19^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	18	1	5.6%	17^th
1896 Mar-May	54	6	11.1%	2^nd
1896 Jun-Jun	28	6	21.4%	31^st
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	9	14.5%	0^th
1897 Mar-Jul	37	3	8.1%	13^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	29	4	13.8%	24^th
1898 Mar-May	53	13	24.5%	46^th
1898 Jun-Jul	26	5	19.2%	33^rd
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	19	51.4%	86^th
Dec 1907-May 1908	269	33	12.3%	16^th
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	42	3	7.1%	10^th
1909 Mar-Aug	35	2	5.7%	21^st
Dec 1909-Feb 1910	18	5	27.8%	54^th
1910 Mar-May	60	6	10.0%	14^th
1910 Jun-Jun	18	1	5.6%	21^st
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	66	16	24.2%	44^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