Benjamin Shively, former Senator from Indiana

Dates	Title	Representing
1915-1917	Senator	Indiana
1909-1915	Senator	Indiana
1891-1893	Representative	Indiana's 13^th District
1889-1891	Representative	Indiana's 13^th District
1887-1889	Representative	Indiana's 13^th District
1883-1885	Representative	Indiana's 13^th District

Voting Record

From Apr 1909 to Dec 1916, Shively missed 372 of 1,267 roll call votes, which is 29.4%. This is better than the median of 30.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1916. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1909 Apr-Aug	126	61	48.4%	95^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	3	42.9%	57^th
1910 Mar-May	35	7	20.0%	46^th
1910 Jun-Jun	39	5	12.8%	24^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	48	5	10.4%	26^th
1911 May-Aug	94	8	8.5%	21^st
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	34	6	17.6%	52^nd
1912 Apr-Jul	99	6	6.1%	11^th
1912 Aug-Aug	51	2	3.9%	5^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	109	36	33.0%	62^nd
1913 Apr-Jul	38	5	13.2%	28^th
1913 Aug-Nov	109	10	9.2%	18^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	59	12	20.3%	47^th
1914 Mar-May	57	23	40.4%	62^nd
1914 Jun-Aug	119	43	36.1%	44^th
1914 Sep-Oct	63	25	39.7%	43^rd
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	116	56	48.3%	76^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	1	20.0%	35^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	37	37	100.0%	97^th
1916 Mar-May	20	20	100.0%	99^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	1	1	100.0%	97^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