William Purman, former Representative from Florida's 1st District

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

Voting Record

From Dec 1873 to Mar 1877, Purman missed 535 of 713 roll call votes, which is 75.0%. This is worse than the median of 25.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1877. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	75	43	57.3%	96^th
1874 Mar-May	99	47	47.5%	91^st
1874 Jun-Jun	59	32	54.2%	92^nd
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	155	145	93.5%	99^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	59	43	72.9%	98^th
1876 Apr-Jul	105	94	89.5%	98^th
1876 Aug-Aug	37	36	97.3%	86^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	124	95	76.6%	98^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