William Schley Howard, former Representative for Georgia's 5th Congressional District

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Howard was the representative for Georgia’s 5^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1915 to 1919.

He was previously the representative for Georgia’s 5^th congressional district as a Democrat from 1911 to 1915.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Apr 1911 to Mar 1919, Howard missed 331 of 963 roll call votes, which is 34.4%. This is worse than the median of 25.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1919. 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
1911 Apr-Aug	49	5	10.2%	29^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	58	16	27.6%	56^th
1912 Apr-Jul	57	11	19.3%	30^th
1912 Aug-Aug	30	12	40.0%	58^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	67	35	52.2%	87^th
1913 Apr-Jul	22	6	27.3%	39^th
1913 Aug-Nov	43	29	67.4%	66^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	24	4	16.7%	42^nd
1914 Mar-May	34	10	29.4%	62^nd
1914 Jun-Aug	62	21	33.9%	45^th
1914 Sep-Oct	29	6	20.7%	38^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	67	19	28.4%	65^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	14	2	14.3%	53^rd
1916 Mar-May	53	7	13.2%	39^th
1916 Jun-Aug	23	6	26.1%	47^th
1916 Sep-Sep	3	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	62	8	12.9%	43^rd
1917 Apr-Jun	43	3	7.0%	19^th
1917 Jul-Sep	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1917 Oct-Oct	4	4	100.0%	73^rd
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	19	55.9%	92^nd
1918 Mar-May	65	34	52.3%	86^th
1918 Jun-Aug	33	33	100.0%	97^th
1918 Sep-Oct	14	13	92.9%	89^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	63	28	44.4%	78^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

Rep. William Schley Howard

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Missed Votes

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