William Shepard, former Representative from Massachusetts's 2nd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1801-1803	Representative	Massachusetts's 2^nd District
1799-1801	Representative	Massachusetts's 2^nd District
1797-1799	Representative	Massachusetts's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Jun 1797 to Mar 1803, Shepard missed 98 of 393 roll call votes, which is 24.9%. This is worse than the median of 17.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1803. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1797 Jun-Jul	34	1	2.9%	33^rd
Nov 1797-Feb 1798	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1798 Mar-Jun	42	3	7.1%	34^th
1798 Jul-Jul	16	9	56.3%	71^st
Dec 1798-Mar 1799	44	5	11.4%	54^th
Dec 1799-May 1800	54	1	1.9%	4^th
Nov 1800-Mar 1801	42	5	11.9%	61^st
Dec 1801-May 1802	94	49	52.1%	88^th
Dec 1802-Mar 1803	48	25	52.1%	88^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