Rep. William Humphrey
Former Representative for Washington’s 1st District
Humphrey was the representative for Washington’s 1st congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1915 to 1917.
He was previously the representative for Washington’s 1st congressional district as a Republican from 1909 to 1915; the representative for Washington as a Republican from 1907 to 1909; the representative for Washington as a Republican from 1905 to 1907; and the representative for Washington as a Republican from 1903 to 1905.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Nov 1903 to Mar 1917, Humphrey missed 351 of 1,434 roll call votes, which is 24.5%. This is on par with the median of 24.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1917. 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
