William Fields, former Representative from Kentucky's 9th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1923-1925	Representative	Kentucky's 9^th District
1915-1923	Representative	Kentucky's 9^th District
1911-1915	Representative	Kentucky's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Apr 1911 to Dec 1923, Fields missed 706 of 1,608 roll call votes, which is 43.9%. This is worse than the median of 17.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1923. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1911 Apr-Aug	48	15	31.3%	68^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	57	56	98.2%	96^th
1912 Apr-Jul	54	46	85.2%	96^th
1912 Aug-Aug	29	29	100.0%	83^rd
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	63	22	34.9%	64^th
1913 Apr-Jul	22	14	63.6%	74^th
1913 Aug-Nov	42	25	59.5%	51^st
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	24	3	12.5%	43^rd
1914 Mar-May	34	4	11.8%	29^th
1914 Jun-Aug	62	47	75.8%	81^st
1914 Sep-Oct	27	12	44.4%	61^st
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	67	5	7.5%	22^nd
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	15	6	40.0%	93^rd
1916 Mar-May	52	6	11.5%	50^th
1916 Jun-Aug	20	14	70.0%	97^th
1916 Sep-Sep	3	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	62	4	6.5%	27^th
1917 Apr-Jun	40	15	37.5%	96^th
1917 Jul-Sep	10	2	20.0%	45^th
1917 Oct-Oct	3	1	33.3%	44^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	33	5	15.2%	53^rd
1918 Mar-May	63	17	27.0%	66^th
1918 Jun-Aug	30	11	36.7%	69^th
1918 Sep-Oct	14	4	28.6%	48^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	63	16	25.4%	71^st
1919 May-Jul	62	13	21.0%	51^st
1919 Aug-Oct	52	43	82.7%	94^th
1919 Nov-Nov	16	13	81.3%	86^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	39	16	41.0%	84^th
1920 Mar-May	69	41	59.4%	90^th
1920 Jun-Jun	8	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	90	14	15.6%	56^th
1921 Apr-Jun	52	41	78.8%	98^th
1921 Jul-Aug	47	10	21.3%	50^th
1921 Oct-Nov	27	13	48.1%	81^st
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	46	20	43.5%	80^th
1922 Mar-May	41	39	95.1%	99^th
1922 Jun-Aug	46	46	100.0%	97^th
1922 Sep-Sep	10	10	100.0%	86^th
1922 Nov-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	60	8	13.3%	32^nd
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	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