Willis was the representative for Louisiana’s 3rd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1949 to 1968.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1949 to Oct 1968, Willis missed 370 of 2,468 roll call votes, which is 15.0%. This is much worse than the median of 5.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1968. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
