Howell was the representative for Utah’s 1st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1915 to 1917.
He was previously the representative for Utah as a Republican from 1913 to 1915; the representative for Utah’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1907 to 1913; the representative for Utah’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1905 to 1907; and the representative for Utah’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1903 to 1905.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Nov 1903 to Mar 1917, Howell missed 364 of 1,434 roll call votes, which is 25.4%. This is on par with the median of 24.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1917. 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
