Rep. William Nelson

Former Representative from Missouri’s 2^nd District, Democrat

Nelson, a Democrat, was the representative for Missouri's 2^nd congressional district from 1935 to 1942.

He was previously the representative for Missouri's 8^th congressional district (1931-1933); the representative for Missouri's 8^th congressional district (1927-1931); the representative for Missouri's 8^th congressional district (1925-1927); and the representative for Missouri's 8^th congressional district (1919-1921).

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From May 1919 to Nov 1942, Nelson missed 66 of 1,499 roll call votes, which is 4.4%. This is better than the median of 6.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 1942. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1919 May-Jul	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 Aug-Oct	52	1	1.9%	0^th
1919 Nov-Nov	16	1	6.3%	21^st
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1920 Mar-May	70	1	1.4%	0^th
1920 Jun-Jun	8	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	92	3	3.3%	10^th
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1926 Mar-May	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1926 Jun-Jul	22	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	33	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	54	2	3.7%	14^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1929 Apr-Jun	14	1	7.1%	12^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1930 Mar-May	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1930 Jun-Jul	21	1	4.8%	26^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	33	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	17	4	23.5%	75^th
1932 Mar-May	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1932 Jun-Jul	30	10	33.3%	83^rd
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	37	2	5.4%	21^st
1935 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Apr-Jun	40	1	2.5%	19^th
1935 Jul-Aug	60	7	11.7%	69^th
1936 Jan-Jun	80	19	23.8%	61^st
1937 Jan-Mar	19	1	5.3%	21^st
1937 Apr-Jun	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Jul-Aug	28	4	14.3%	39^th
1937 Dec-Dec	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1938 Jan-Jun	61	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	42	1	2.4%	37^th
1939 Jul-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Oct-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	32	3	9.4%	67^th
1940 Apr-Jun	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jul-Sep	28	2	7.1%	46^th
1940 Oct-Dec	10	1	10.0%	25^th
1941 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jul-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Oct-Dec	15	1	6.7%	68^th
1942 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Apr-Jun	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Jul-Sep	11	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Oct-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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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