Rep. William Nichols

Former Representative from Alabama's 3^rd District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1973-1988	Representative	Alabama's 3^rd District
1967-1972	Representative	Alabama's 4^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Nichols was a centrist Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Nichols’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Nichols to other members of the House of Representatives in the 100^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Jan 1967 to Oct 1988, Nichols missed 1,110 of 10,046 roll call votes, which is 11.0%. This is worse than the median of 5.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1988. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1967 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Apr-Jun	57	1	1.8%	68^th
1967 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Oct-Dec	93	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jan-Mar	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Apr-Jun	75	0	0.0%	0^th
1968 Jul-Sep	88	2	2.3%	56^th
1968 Oct-Oct	20	5	25.0%	87^th
1969 Jan-Mar	15	3	20.0%	89^th
1969 Apr-Jun	27	2	7.4%	51^st
1969 Jul-Sep	45	2	4.4%	34^th
1969 Oct-Dec	82	14	17.1%	76^th
1970 Jan-Mar	33	4	12.1%	63^rd
1970 Apr-Jun	74	18	24.3%	76^th
1970 Jul-Sep	75	7	9.3%	41^st
1970 Oct-Dec	74	15	20.3%	71^st
1971 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1971 Apr-Jun	88	6	6.8%	26^th
1971 Jul-Sep	70	14	20.0%	85^th
1971 Oct-Dec	130	8	6.2%	34^th
1972 Jan-Mar	60	5	8.3%	54^th
1972 Apr-Jun	111	25	22.5%	78^th
1972 Jul-Sep	97	34	35.1%	93^rd
1972 Oct-Oct	44	38	86.4%	97^th
1973 Jan-Mar	35	7	20.0%	82^nd
1973 Apr-Jun	187	14	7.5%	50^th
1973 Jul-Sep	130	9	6.9%	60^th
1973 Oct-Dec	177	25	14.1%	81^st
1974 Jan-Mar	77	13	16.9%	88^th
1974 Apr-Jun	169	29	17.2%	81^st
1974 Jul-Sep	145	9	6.2%	63^rd
1974 Oct-Dec	137	16	11.7%	63^rd
1975 Jan-Mar	66	1	1.5%	35^th
1975 Apr-Jun	196	10	5.1%	50^th
1975 Jul-Sep	146	13	8.9%	65^th
1975 Oct-Dec	186	11	5.9%	62^nd
1976 Jan-Mar	104	9	8.7%	66^th
1976 Apr-Jun	254	34	13.4%	76^th
1976 Jul-Sep	279	10	3.6%	37^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	1	14.3%	70^th
1977 Jan-Mar	98	5	5.1%	55^th
1977 Apr-Jun	267	17	6.4%	50^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	7	3.5%	36^th
1977 Oct-Dec	130	13	10.0%	74^th
1978 Jan-Mar	144	11	7.6%	60^th
1978 Apr-Jun	294	28	9.5%	62^nd
1978 Jul-Sep	290	28	9.7%	62^nd
1978 Oct-Oct	75	12	16.0%	83^rd
1979 Jan-Mar	61	5	8.2%	75^th
1979 Apr-Jun	220	21	9.5%	70^th
1979 Jul-Sep	197	6	3.0%	33^rd
1979 Oct-Dec	189	37	19.6%	87^th
1980 Jan-Mar	142	8	5.6%	37^th
1980 Apr-Jun	195	11	5.6%	41^st
1980 Jul-Sep	175	34	19.4%	91^st
1980 Oct-Dec	66	10	15.2%	70^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	2	13.3%	74^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	3	3.4%	26^th
1981 Jul-Sep	102	3	2.9%	43^rd
1981 Oct-Dec	139	16	11.5%	76^th
1982 Feb-Mar	48	1	2.1%	24^th
1982 Apr-Jun	119	8	6.7%	66^th
1982 Jul-Sep	193	33	17.1%	90^th
1982 Oct-Dec	98	18	18.4%	83^rd
1983 Jan-Mar	42	0	0.0%	0^th
1983 Apr-Jun	176	22	12.5%	78^th
1983 Jul-Sep	127	8	6.3%	74^th
1983 Oct-Nov	142	17	12.0%	82^nd
1984 Jan-Mar	53	16	30.2%	96^th
1984 Apr-Jun	220	24	10.9%	78^th
1984 Jul-Sep	95	7	7.4%	67^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	1	2.8%	29^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	6	16.7%	83^rd
1985 Apr-Jun	154	3	1.9%	21^st
1985 Jul-Sep	101	17	16.8%	96^th
1985 Oct-Dec	147	14	9.5%	85^th
1986 Jan-Mar	61	8	13.1%	73^rd
1986 Apr-Jun	124	61	49.2%	99^th
1986 Jul-Sep	201	8	4.0%	53^rd
1986 Oct-Oct	57	32	56.1%	98^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	1	2.6%	36^th
1987 Apr-Jun	185	10	5.4%	60^th
1987 Jul-Sep	95	4	4.2%	58^th
1987 Oct-Dec	164	32	19.5%	93^rd
1988 Feb-Mar	49	4	8.2%	64^th
1988 Apr-Jun	160	26	16.3%	92^nd
1988 Jul-Sep	148	37	25.0%	94^th
1988 Oct-Oct	89	1	1.1%	32^nd

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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. William Nichols [D-AL3, 1973-1988] leaves office as Representative for Alabama's 3rd congressional district

Oct 22, 1988

Elections and Offices

Rep. William Nichols [D-AL3, 1973-1988] takes office as Representative for Alabama's 3rd congressional district

Jan 03, 1973

Elections and Offices

Rep. William Nichols [D-AL3, 1973-1988] leaves office as Representative for Alabama's 4th congressional district

Oct 18, 1972

Elections and Offices

Rep. William Nichols [D-AL3, 1973-1988] takes office as Representative for Alabama's 4th congressional district

Jan 10, 1967