William Phillips, former Representative from Kansas's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1877-1879	Representative	Kansas's 1^st District
1875-1877	Representative	Kansas's 1^st District
1873-1875	Representative	Kansas

Voting Record

From Dec 1873 to Mar 1879, Phillips missed 329 of 1,166 roll call votes, which is 28.2%. This is worse than the median of 21.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1879. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	77	33	42.9%	95^th
1874 Mar-May	101	41	40.6%	89^th
1874 Jun-Jun	58	31	53.4%	89^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	233	73	31.3%	68^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	59	2	3.4%	18^th
1876 Apr-Jul	106	48	45.3%	77^th
1876 Aug-Aug	37	25	67.6%	76^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	124	28	22.6%	66^th
1877 Oct-Dec	35	1	2.9%	22^nd
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	56	8	14.3%	44^th
1878 Mar-May	102	10	9.8%	23^rd
1878 Jun-Jun	65	1	1.5%	4^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	113	28	24.8%	68^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