William Jones, former Representative from Virginia's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1915-1919	Representative	Virginia's 1^st District
1907-1915	Representative	Virginia's 1^st District
1905-1907	Representative	Virginia's 1^st District
1903-1905	Representative	Virginia's 1^st District
1901-1903	Representative	Virginia's 1^st District
1899-1901	Representative	Virginia's 1^st District
1895-1899	Representative	Virginia's 1^st District
1893-1895	Representative	Virginia's 1^st District
1891-1893	Representative	Virginia's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1891 to Apr 1918, Jones missed 1,037 of 2,861 roll call votes, which is 36.2%. This is worse than the median of 24.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Apr 1918. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	56	33	58.9%	67^th
1892 Apr-Jul	159	43	27.0%	0^th
1892 Aug-Aug	4	1	25.0%	0^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	79	22	27.8%	0^th
1893 Aug-Nov	67	46	68.7%	82^nd
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	133	38	28.6%	45^th
1894 Apr-Jul	101	10	9.9%	9^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	5	25.0%	18^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	46	6	13.0%	36^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	17	4	23.5%	67^th
1896 Mar-May	54	21	38.9%	61^st
1896 Jun-Jun	28	13	46.4%	67^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	62	34	54.8%	72^nd
1897 Mar-Jul	33	24	72.7%	93^rd
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	28	13	46.4%	79^th
1898 Mar-May	53	20	37.7%	68^th
1898 Jun-Jul	26	13	50.0%	76^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	18	48.6%	79^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1900 Mar-May	49	11	22.4%	36^th
1900 Jun-Jun	16	4	25.0%	69^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	61	6	9.8%	10^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	17	3	17.6%	56^th
1902 Mar-May	22	6	27.3%	40^th
1902 Jun-Jul	28	8	28.6%	48^th
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	113	26	23.0%	46^th
1903 Nov-Nov	6	1	16.7%	57^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	8	16.3%	30^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	1	3.1%	4^th
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	24	7	29.2%	69^th
1906 Mar-May	57	33	57.9%	86^th
1906 Jun-Jun	20	8	40.0%	75^th
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	28	15	53.6%	94^th
Dec 1907-May 1908	270	102	37.8%	68^th
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	42	10	23.8%	53^rd
1909 Mar-Aug	36	5	13.9%	53^rd
Dec 1909-Feb 1910	18	5	27.8%	60^th
1910 Mar-May	60	14	23.3%	54^th
1910 Jun-Jun	18	9	50.0%	84^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	65	9	13.8%	40^th
1911 Apr-Aug	46	20	43.5%	82^nd
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	58	9	15.5%	32^nd
1912 Apr-Jul	57	10	17.5%	28^th
1912 Aug-Aug	29	14	48.3%	63^rd
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	65	19	29.2%	61^st
1913 Apr-Jul	22	10	45.5%	55^th
1913 Aug-Nov	43	28	65.1%	60^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	24	24	100.0%	98^th
1914 Mar-May	34	21	61.8%	94^th
1914 Jun-Aug	62	44	71.0%	77^th
1914 Sep-Oct	29	19	65.5%	83^rd
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	67	45	67.2%	93^rd
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	15	7	46.7%	94^th
1916 Mar-May	51	23	45.1%	93^rd
1916 Jun-Aug	20	14	70.0%	96^th
1916 Sep-Sep	3	1	33.3%	52^nd
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	62	32	51.6%	97^th
1917 Apr-Jun	40	9	22.5%	76^th
1917 Jul-Sep	10	4	40.0%	68^th
1917 Oct-Oct	3	1	33.3%	41^st
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	33	11	33.3%	75^th
1918 Mar-May	34	17	50.0%	85^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