Boies Penrose, former Senator from Pennsylvania

Dates	Title	Representing
1915-1921	Senator	Pennsylvania
1903-1915	Senator	Pennsylvania
1897-1903	Senator	Pennsylvania

Voting Record

From Mar 1897 to Mar 1921, Penrose missed 1,706 of 3,204 roll call votes, which is 53.2%. This is worse than the median of 23.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1921. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1897 Mar-Jul	192	102	53.1%	50^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	24	10	41.7%	83^rd
1898 Mar-May	51	19	37.3%	67^th
1898 Jun-Jul	52	35	67.3%	83^rd
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	46	24	52.2%	83^rd
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	19	6	31.6%	63^rd
1900 Mar-May	53	25	47.2%	56^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	7	58.3%	75^th
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	74	36	48.6%	78^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	9	34.6%	70^th
1902 Mar-May	49	12	24.5%	50^th
1902 Jun-Jun	23	6	26.1%	60^th
1903 Jan-Mar	18	11	61.1%	64^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	80^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	23	63.9%	92^nd
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	55	24	43.6%	85^th
1906 Jan-Feb	8	1	12.5%	43^rd
1906 Mar-May	49	19	38.8%	86^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	12	38.7%	57^th
1907 Jan-Mar	38	16	42.1%	73^rd
1908 Mar-May	49	39	79.6%	90^th
1909 Jan-Mar	33	11	33.3%	59^th
1909 Apr-Aug	127	11	8.7%	32^nd
1910 Jan-Feb	7	3	42.9%	52^nd
1910 Mar-May	33	24	72.7%	88^th
1910 Jun-Jun	39	39	100.0%	88^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	50	7	14.0%	43^rd
1911 May-Aug	77	26	33.8%	83^rd
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	32	13	40.6%	78^th
1912 Apr-Jul	96	61	63.5%	85^th
1912 Aug-Aug	51	14	27.5%	65^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	106	38	35.8%	74^th
1913 Apr-Jul	35	23	65.7%	92^nd
1913 Aug-Nov	108	44	40.7%	78^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	55	40	72.7%	94^th
1914 Mar-May	49	44	89.8%	96^th
1914 Jun-Aug	115	112	97.4%	98^th
1914 Sep-Oct	60	56	93.3%	86^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	112	79	70.5%	96^th
1913 Mar-Mar	4	3	75.0%	73^rd
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	34	30	88.2%	96^th
1916 Mar-May	90	82	91.1%	98^th
1916 Jun-Aug	78	29	37.2%	77^th
1916 Sep-Sep	13	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	148	73	49.3%	85^th
1917 Apr-Jun	60	32	53.3%	96^th
1917 Jul-Sep	102	16	15.7%	56^th
1917 Oct-Oct	10	3	30.0%	65^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	31	22	71.0%	92^nd
1918 Mar-May	47	38	80.9%	95^th
1918 Jun-Aug	42	11	26.2%	53^rd
1918 Sep-Nov	19	10	52.6%	70^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	53	9	17.0%	28^th
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 May-Jul	29	21	72.4%	96^th
1919 Aug-Oct	31	6	19.4%	54^th
1919 Nov-Nov	78	10	12.8%	71^st
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	46	46	100.0%	97^th
1920 Mar-May	99	99	100.0%	98^th
1920 Jun-Jun	19	19	100.0%	84^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	78	65	83.3%	94^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