William Whittington, former Representative from Mississippi's 3rd District

Dates	Title	Representing
1947-1951	Representative	Mississippi's 3^rd District
1939-1946	Representative	Mississippi's 3^rd District
1937-1938	Representative	Mississippi's 3^rd District
1935-1936	Representative	Mississippi's 3^rd District
1931-1934	Representative	Mississippi's 3^rd District
1927-1931	Representative	Mississippi's 3^rd District
1925-1927	Representative	Mississippi's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1925 to Jan 1951, Whittington missed 16 of 2,111 roll call votes, which is 0.8%. This is worse than the median of 0.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jan 1951. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1926 Mar-May	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1926 Jun-Jul	22	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	33	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	54	1	1.9%	13^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	18	2	11.1%	29^th
1929 Apr-Jun	13	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	8	1	12.5%	35^th
1930 Mar-May	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1930 Jun-Jul	21	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	33	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	17	1	5.9%	29^th
1932 Mar-May	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1932 Jun-Jul	29	2	6.9%	33^rd
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1933 Mar-Jun	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1934 Jan-Jun	81	1	1.2%	14^th
1935 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Apr-Jun	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Jul-Aug	58	2	3.4%	47^th
1936 Jan-Jun	80	2	2.5%	10^th
1937 Jan-Mar	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Apr-Jun	41	1	2.4%	10^th
1937 Jul-Aug	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Dec-Dec	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1938 Jan-Jun	61	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	40	1	2.5%	92^nd
1939 Jul-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Oct-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Apr-Jun	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jul-Sep	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Oct-Dec	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jul-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Apr-Jun	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Jul-Sep	11	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Oct-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Apr-Jun	49	1	2.0%	44^th
1943 Jul-Sep	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Oct-Dec	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Jan-Mar	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Apr-Jun	32	1	3.1%	52^nd
1944 Sep-Sep	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Nov-Dec	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Jan-Mar	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Apr-Jun	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Jul-Sep	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Oct-Dec	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Jan-Mar	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Apr-Jun	52	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Jul-Aug	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Jan-Mar	24	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Jul-Jul	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Nov-Dec	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Apr-Jun	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Aug-Aug	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jan-Mar	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	52	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan	4	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