Rep. William McKeighan

Former Representative for Nebraska’s 5^th District

McKeighan was the representative for Nebraska’s 5^th congressional district and was a Populist. He served from 1893 to 1895.

He was previously the representative for Nebraska’s 2^nd congressional district as a Populist from 1891 to 1893.

Bioguide

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1891 to Mar 1895, McKeighan missed 355 of 676 roll call votes, which is 52.5%. This is worse than the median of 37.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1895. 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 1891-Mar 1892	58	25	43.1%	68^th
1892 Apr-Jul	161	90	55.9%	76^th
1892 Aug-Aug	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	81	57	70.4%	96^th
1893 Aug-Nov	67	41	61.2%	83^rd
Dec 1893-Mar 1894	134	50	37.3%	45^th
1894 Apr-Jul	103	51	49.5%	54^th
1894 Aug-Aug	20	15	75.0%	86^th
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	48	26	54.2%	87^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 McKeighan

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources