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Rep. William Franklin

Former Representative from Mississippi’s 2^nd District, Republican

Bioguide

Franklin, a Republican, was the representative for Mississippi's 2^nd congressional district from 1983 to 1986.

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Franklin sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Private Legislation (100%)

Recent Bills

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1983 to Oct 1986, Franklin missed 204 of 1,796 roll call votes, which is 11.4%. This is worse than the median of 6.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1986. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1983 Jan-Mar	43	1	2.3%	16^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	10	5.5%	43^rd
1983 Jul-Sep	130	12	9.2%	81^st
1983 Oct-Nov	143	20	14.0%	86^th
1984 Jan-Mar	53	2	3.8%	36^th
1984 Apr-Jun	223	28	12.6%	82^nd
1984 Jul-Sep	96	25	26.0%	96^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	7	19.4%	85^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	5	13.9%	76^th
1985 Apr-Jun	154	17	11.0%	84^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	6	5.9%	59^th
1985 Oct-Dec	148	5	3.4%	42^nd
1986 Jan-Mar	61	14	23.0%	89^th
1986 Apr-Jun	128	33	25.8%	95^th
1986 Jul-Sep	202	14	6.9%	67^th
1986 Oct-Oct	60	5	8.3%	67^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election 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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills