Rep. Archibald Yell

Former Representative from Arkansas’s 1^st District, Democrat

Yell, a Democrat, was the representative for Arkansas's 1^st congressional district from 1845 to 1847.

He was previously the representative for Arkansas's 1^st congressional district (1837-1839); and the representative for Arkansas's 1^st congressional district (1835-1837; Jackson).

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Voting Record

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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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1836-Mar 1837	136	12	8.8%	5^th
1837 Sep-Oct	54	10	18.5%	61^st
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	1	1.9%	0^th
1838 Mar-May	122	5	4.1%	0^th
1838 Jun-Jul	102	7	6.9%	4^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	145	15	10.3%	9^th
Dec 1845-Mar 1846	149	6	4.0%	2^nd
1846 Apr-Jul	176	64	36.4%	73^rd

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

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