William Howard, former Representative from Michigan's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1859-1861	Representative	Michigan's 1^st District
1857-1859	Representative	Michigan's 1^st District
1855-1857	Representative	Michigan's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1855 to Mar 1861, Howard missed 347 of 1,536 roll call votes, which is 22.6%. This is better than the median of 23.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1861. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1855-Mar 1856	174	22	12.6%	44^th
1856 Apr-Jul	200	167	83.5%	96^th
1856 Aug-Aug	73	24	32.9%	75^th
1856 Aug-Aug	44	1	2.3%	19^th
Dec 1856-Mar 1857	231	18	7.8%	26^th
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	98	3	3.1%	10^th
1858 Mar-May	178	12	6.7%	19^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	14	20.6%	41^st
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	195	23	11.8%	26^th
1860 Mar-May	37	8	21.6%	39^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	16	16.5%	22^nd
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	39	27.7%	58^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