Rep. William Elijah Fuller

Former Representative for Iowa’s 4^th District

Fuller was the representative for Iowa’s 4^th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1887 to 1889.

He was previously the representative for Iowa’s 4^th congressional district as a Republican from 1885 to 1887.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1885 to Mar 1889, Fuller missed 62 of 625 roll call votes, which is 9.9%. This is better than the median of 32.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1889. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	39	2	5.1%	7^th
1886 Apr-Jul	158	7	4.4%	2^nd
1886 Aug-Aug	6	1	16.7%	28^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	103	9	8.7%	8^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	39	6	15.4%	22^nd
1888 Mar-May	105	7	6.7%	4^th
1888 Jun-Aug	47	6	12.8%	7^th
1888 Sep-Oct	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	112	24	21.4%	26^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

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

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