William Upshaw, former Representative from Georgia's 5th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1925-1927	Representative	Georgia's 5^th District
1923-1925	Representative	Georgia's 5^th District
1919-1923	Representative	Georgia's 5^th District

Voting Record

From May 1919 to Mar 1927, Upshaw missed 236 of 933 roll call votes, which is 25.3%. This is worse than the median of 13.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1927. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1919 May-Jul	62	7	11.3%	31^st
1919 Aug-Oct	52	28	53.8%	81^st
1919 Nov-Nov	15	5	33.3%	66^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	39	12	30.8%	67^th
1920 Mar-May	69	16	23.2%	60^th
1920 Jun-Jun	8	3	37.5%	67^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	89	23	25.8%	75^th
1921 Apr-Jun	56	15	26.8%	75^th
1921 Jul-Aug	38	25	65.8%	91^st
1921 Oct-Nov	29	10	34.5%	71^st
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	47	12	25.5%	58^th
1922 Mar-May	45	24	53.3%	88^th
1922 Jun-Aug	51	13	25.5%	44^th
1922 Sep-Sep	9	9	100.0%	86^th
1922 Nov-Nov	5	1	20.0%	68^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	59	16	27.1%	60^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1924 Mar-May	72	10	13.9%	66^th
1924 Jun-Jun	10	4	40.0%	91^st
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	53	1	1.9%	39^th
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1926 Mar-May	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1926 Jun-Jul	21	2	9.5%	64^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	32	0	0.0%	0^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo