Rep. Alpheus Williams

Former Representative for Michigan’s 1^st District

Williams was the representative for Michigan’s 1^st congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1877 to 1879.

He was previously the representative for Michigan’s 1^st congressional district as a Democrat from Dec 6, 1875 to Mar 3, 1877.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1875 to Dec 1878, Williams missed 105 of 598 roll call votes, which is 17.6%. This is better than the median of 22.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1878. 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 1875-Mar 1876	60	3	5.0%	18^th
1876 Apr-Jul	106	37	34.9%	53^rd
1876 Aug-Aug	37	6	16.2%	26^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	125	17	13.6%	35^th
1877 Oct-Dec	37	8	21.6%	60^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	56	9	16.1%	43^rd
1878 Mar-May	103	12	11.7%	22^nd
1878 Jun-Jun	65	9	13.8%	33^rd
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	9	4	44.4%	90^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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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources