Rep. James Williams

Former Representative from Illinois’s 24^th District, Democrat

Williams, a Democrat, was the representative for Illinois's 24^th congressional district from 1903 to 1905.

He was previously the representative for Illinois's 20^th congressional district (1901-1903); the representative for Illinois's 20^th congressional district (1899-1901); the representative for Illinois's 19^th congressional district (1893-1895); the representative for Illinois's 19^th congressional district (1891-1893); and the representative for Illinois's 19^th congressional district (1889-1891).

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Voting Record

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From Dec 1889 to Mar 1905, Williams missed 295 of 1,683 roll call votes, which is 17.5%. This is better than the median of 29.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1905. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	80	38	47.5%	81^st
1890 Mar-May	109	18	16.5%	25^th
1890 Jun-Aug	172	12	7.0%	4^th
1890 Sep-Sep	53	45	84.9%	83^rd
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	21	12.1%	14^th
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	58	9	15.5%	23^rd
1892 Apr-Jul	161	31	19.3%	10^th
1892 Aug-Aug	4	1	25.0%	47^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	81	24	29.6%	37^th
1893 Aug-Nov	68	24	35.3%	38^th
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	134	13	9.7%	15^th
1894 Apr-Jul	103	14	13.6%	22^nd
1894 Aug-Aug	20	4	20.0%	7^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	4	8.3%	12^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	21	3	14.3%	14^th
1900 Mar-May	49	4	8.2%	10^th
1900 Jun-Jun	17	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	7	11.3%	11^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1902 Mar-May	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1902 Jun-Jul	28	4	14.3%	16^th
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	114	9	7.9%	6^th
1903 Nov-Nov	6	1	16.7%	22^nd
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	8	16.3%	17^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	1	3.1%	2^nd

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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