William Niblack, former Representative for Indiana's 1st Congressional District

Niblack was the representative for Indiana’s 1^st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1873 to 1875.

He was previously the representative for Indiana’s 1^st congressional district as a Democrat from 1865 to 1873; the representative for Indiana’s 1^st congressional district as a Democrat from 1859 to 1861; and the representative for Indiana’s 1^st congressional district as a Democrat from 1857 to 1859.

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1857 to Mar 1875, Niblack missed 523 of 3,936 roll call votes, which is 13.3%. This is better than the median of 22.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1875. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1857-Feb 1858	104	9	8.7%	6^th
1858 Mar-May	180	24	13.3%	25^th
1858 Jun-Jun	68	3	4.4%	6^th
Dec 1858-Mar 1859	196	25	12.8%	25^th
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	5	7.2%	48^th
1860 Mar-May	126	19	15.1%	39^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	11	11.3%	13^th
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	10	7.1%	13^th
Dec 1865-Feb 1866	105	10	9.5%	50^th
1866 Mar-May	142	31	21.8%	44^th
1866 Jun-Jul	142	12	8.5%	27^th
Dec 1866-Mar 1867	224	17	7.6%	19^th
1867 Mar-Mar	61	3	4.9%	16^th
1867 Jul-Jul	35	2	5.7%	24^th
1867 Nov-Nov	5	1	20.0%	51^st
Dec 1867-Feb 1868	142	19	13.4%	19^th
1868 Mar-May	126	36	28.6%	38^th
1868 Jun-Jul	150	21	14.0%	15^th
1868 Sep-Sep	1	1	100.0%	46^th
Dec 1868-Mar 1869	197	12	6.1%	0^th
1869 Mar-Apr	83	4	4.8%	5^th
Dec 1869-Feb 1870	71	5	7.0%	15^th
1870 Mar-May	152	26	17.1%	40^th
1870 Jun-Jul	170	13	7.6%	10^th
Dec 1870-Mar 1871	158	30	19.0%	57^th
1871 Mar-Apr	87	2	2.3%	1^st
Dec 1871-Feb 1872	89	2	2.2%	6^th
1872 Mar-May	156	34	21.8%	33^rd
1872 Jun-Jun	35	14	40.0%	67^th
Dec 1872-Mar 1873	150	23	15.3%	26^th
Dec 1873-Feb 1874	78	11	14.1%	39^th
1874 Mar-May	101	7	6.9%	14^th
1874 Jun-Jun	60	14	23.3%	54^th
Dec 1874-Mar 1875	235	67	28.5%	57^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

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Rep. William Niblack

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Missed Votes

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