McKinley was a senator from Illinois and was a Republican. He served from 1921 to 1927.
He was previously the representative for Illinois’s 19th congressional district as a Republican from 1915 to 1921; the representative for Illinois’s 19th congressional district as a Republican from 1907 to 1913; and the representative for Illinois’s 19th congressional district as a Republican from 1905 to 1907.
![Photo of Sen. William Brown McKinley [R-IL, 1921-1927]](/static/legislator-photos/407514-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1921 to Dec 1926, McKinley missed 376 of 1,145 roll call votes, which is 32.8%. This is worse than the median of 22.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1926. 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
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
