Bull was the representative for Rhode Island’s 1st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1901 to 1903.
He was previously the representative for Rhode Island’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1899 to 1901; and the representative for Rhode Island’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1895 to 1899.
![Photo of Rep. Melville Bull [R-RI1, 1901-1903]](/static/legislator-photos/401997-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1895 to Mar 1903, Bull missed 339 of 677 roll call votes, which is 50.1%. This is much worse than the median of 31.7% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1903. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
