Yell was the representative for Arkansas’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat. He served from 1845 to 1847.
He was previously the representative for Arkansas’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1837 to 1839; and the representative for Arkansas’s 1st congressional district as a Jackson from 1835 to 1837.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1836 to Jun 1846, Yell missed 120 of 936 roll call votes, which is 12.8%. This is better than the median of 24.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1846. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- 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
