William Stowell, former Representative from Virginia's 4th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1875-1877	Representative	Virginia's 4^th District
1873-1875	Representative	Virginia's 4^th District
1871-1873	Representative	Virginia's 4^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1871 to Mar 1877, Stowell missed 502 of 1,308 roll call votes, which is 38.4%. 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
1871 Mar-Apr	85	14	16.5%	67^th
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	89	36	40.4%	85^th
1872 Mar-May	156	72	46.2%	87^th
1872 Jun-Jun	35	34	97.1%	94^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	150	45	30.0%	74^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	78	12	15.4%	50^th
1874 Mar-May	101	57	56.4%	97^th
1874 Jun-Jun	59	23	39.0%	84^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	231	70	30.3%	67^th
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	59	16	27.1%	71^st
1876 Apr-Jul	104	60	57.7%	87^th
1876 Aug-Aug	37	22	59.5%	65^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	124	41	33.1%	77^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