Rep. William Elliott

Former Representative for South Carolina’s 1^st District

Elliott was the representative for South Carolina’s 1^st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1901 to 1903.

He was previously the representative for South Carolina’s 1^st congressional district as a Democrat from 1899 to 1901; the representative for South Carolina’s 1^st congressional district as a Democrat from 1895 to 1899; the representative for South Carolina’s 7^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1891 to 1893; the representative for South Carolina’s 7^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1889 to 1891; and the representative for South Carolina’s 7^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1887 to 1889.

Bioguide

Photo of Rep. William Elliott [D-SC1, 1901-1903]

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Legislators who enslaved Black people

Elliott was among more than 1,800 legislators who enslaved Black people. The Washington Post compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents. Elliott was one of them.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1887 to Mar 1903, Elliott missed 612 of 1,624 roll call votes, which is 37.7%. This is on par with 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	39	5	12.8%	19^th
1888 Mar-May	105	17	16.2%	30^th
1888 Jun-Aug	47	14	29.8%	22^nd
1888 Sep-Oct	16	8	50.0%	33^rd
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	113	24	21.2%	15^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	80	38	47.5%	81^st
1890 Mar-May	109	34	31.2%	67^th
1890 Jun-Aug	172	56	32.6%	36^th
1890 Sep-Sep	45	35	77.8%	85^th
Dec 1891-Mar 1892	58	28	48.3%	77^th
1892 Apr-Jul	161	91	56.5%	74^th
1892 Aug-Aug	4	4	100.0%	71^st
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	81	29	35.8%	67^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	18	4	22.2%	60^th
1896 Mar-May	54	14	25.9%	33^rd
1896 Jun-Jun	7	4	57.1%	74^th
1897 Mar-Jul	38	19	50.0%	78^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	29	5	17.2%	29^th
1898 Mar-May	53	14	26.4%	51^st
1898 Jun-Jul	26	9	34.6%	55^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	37	9	24.3%	40^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	21	9	42.9%	82^nd
1900 Mar-May	49	6	12.2%	16^th
1900 Jun-Jun	17	3	17.6%	47^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	21	33.9%	59^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	19	6	31.6%	68^th
1902 Mar-May	22	10	45.5%	68^th
1902 Jun-Jul	28	28	100.0%	95^th
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	114	68	59.6%	84^th

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

Rep. William Elliott

Legislators who enslaved Black people

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Missed Votes

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