Cockran was the representative for New York and was a Democrat. He served from 1923 to 1925.
He was previously the representative for New York’s 16th congressional district as a Democrat from 1921 to 1923; the representative for New York’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1907 to 1909; the representative for New York’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1905 to 1907; the representative for New York’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1903 to 1905; the representative for New York’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1893 to 1895; the representative for New York’s 10th congressional district as a Democrat from 1891 to 1893; and the representative for New York’s 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1887 to 1889.
![Photo of Rep. William Cockran [D-NY-1, 1923-1925]](/static/legislator-photos/402704-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1887 to Feb 1923, Cockran missed 1,298 of 1,863 roll call votes, which is 69.7%. This is much worse than the median of 27.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Feb 1923. 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
