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Rep. Christopher Williams

Former Representative from Tennessee’s 11^th District, Whig

Bioguide

Williams, a Whig, was the representative for Tennessee's 11^th congressional district from 1851 to 1853.

He was previously the representative for Tennessee's 11^th congressional district (1849-1851); the representative for Tennessee's 13^th congressional district (1839-1843); and the representative for Tennessee's 13^th congressional district (1837-1839).

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Sep 1837 to Mar 1853, Williams missed 659 of 3,227 roll call votes, which is 20.4%. This is better than the median of 27.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1853. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1837 Sep-Oct	54	2	3.7%	0^th
Dec 1837-Feb 1838	52	9	17.3%	36^th
1838 Mar-May	122	32	26.2%	36^th
1838 Jun-Jul	102	11	10.8%	8^th
Dec 1838-Mar 1839	145	18	12.4%	0^th
Dec 1839-Feb 1840	170	34	20.0%	56^th
1840 Mar-May	250	85	34.0%	33^rd
1840 Jun-Jul	208	56	26.9%	20^th
Dec 1840-Mar 1841	123	23	18.7%	6^th
1841 May-Sep	264	66	25.0%	44^th
Dec 1841-Mar 1842	204	16	7.8%	0^th
1842 Apr-Jul	218	40	18.3%	35^th
1842 Aug-Aug	116	26	22.4%	59^th
Dec 1842-Mar 1843	172	38	22.1%	44^th
Dec 1849-Feb 1850	108	20	18.5%	58^th
1850 Mar-May	68	6	8.8%	13^th
1850 Jun-Aug	146	10	6.8%	19^th
1850 Sep-Sep	117	12	10.3%	42^nd
Dec 1850-Mar 1851	133	13	9.8%	12^th
Dec 1851-Mar 1852	96	11	11.5%	14^th
1852 Apr-Jul	180	31	17.2%	21^st
1852 Aug-Aug	65	62	95.4%	94^th
Dec 1852-Mar 1853	114	38	33.3%	55^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election 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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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