Alva Adams, former Senator from Colorado

Dates	Title	Representing
1939-1941	Senator	Colorado
1933-1938	Senator	Colorado
1923-1925	Senator	Colorado

Voting Record

From Dec 1923 to Nov 1941, Adams missed 32 of 1,055 roll call votes, which is 3.0%. This is better than the median of 15.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Nov 1941. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	24	2	8.3%	29^th
1924 Mar-May	78	9	11.5%	65^th
1924 Jun-Jun	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1933 Mar-Jun	96	4	4.2%	12^th
1934 Jan-Jun	127	1	0.8%	0^th
1933 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Apr-Jun	49	1	2.0%	4^th
1935 Jul-Aug	45	0	0.0%	0^th
1936 Jan-Jun	60	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Jan-Mar	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Apr-Jun	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Jul-Aug	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Nov-Dec	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1938 Jan-Jun	78	10	12.8%	33^rd
1939 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	36	1	2.8%	9^th
1939 Jul-Aug	41	1	2.4%	5^th
1939 Oct-Nov	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	44	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Apr-Jun	64	3	4.7%	18^th
1940 Jul-Sep	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Oct-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Mar	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jul-Sep	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Oct-Dec	7	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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo