Rep. William Vandever

Former Representative from California’s 6^th District, Republican

Vandever, a Republican, was the representative for California's 6^th congressional district from 1889 to 1891.

He was previously the representative for California's 6^th congressional district (1887-1889); the representative for Iowa's 2^nd congressional district (1861-1863); and the representative for Iowa's 2^nd congressional district (1859-1861).

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Voting Record

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From Dec 1859 to Mar 1891, Vandever missed 818 of 1,976 roll call votes, which is 41.4%. This is worse than the median of 33.9% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1891. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1859-Feb 1860	69	11	15.9%	67^th
1860 Mar-May	126	36	28.6%	89^th
1860 Jun-Jun	97	16	16.5%	22^nd
Dec 1860-Mar 1861	141	50	35.5%	67^th
1861 Jul-Aug	54	17	31.5%	57^th
Dec 1861-Feb 1862	75	46	61.3%	88^th
1862 Mar-May	112	110	98.2%	75^th
1862 Jun-Jul	122	122	100.0%	88^th
Dec 1862-Mar 1863	273	269	98.5%	88^th
Dec 1887-Feb 1888	39	18	46.2%	88^th
1888 Mar-May	105	26	24.8%	34^th
1888 Jun-Aug	47	6	12.8%	9^th
1888 Sep-Oct	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1888-Mar 1889	113	24	21.2%	30^th
Dec 1889-Feb 1890	80	8	10.0%	8^th
1890 Mar-May	109	12	11.0%	10^th
1890 Jun-Aug	172	18	10.5%	8^th
1890 Sep-Sep	53	8	15.1%	18^th
Dec 1890-Mar 1891	173	21	12.1%	12^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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