Burton French, former Representative from Idaho's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1931-1933	Representative	Idaho's 1^st District
1927-1931	Representative	Idaho's 1^st District
1925-1927	Representative	Idaho's 1^st District
1923-1925	Representative	Idaho's 1^st District
1919-1923	Representative	Idaho's 1^st District
1917-1919	Representative	Idaho
1913-1915	Representative	Idaho
1911-1913	Representative	Idaho's 1^st District
1907-1909	Representative	Idaho's 1^st District
1905-1907	Representative	Idaho's 1^st District
1903-1905	Representative	Idaho's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Nov 1903 to Mar 1933, French missed 244 of 2,575 roll call votes, which is 9.5%. This is better than the median of 13.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1933. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1903 Nov-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	11	22.4%	38^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	10	31.3%	62^nd
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	25	2	8.0%	38^th
1906 Mar-May	57	6	10.5%	8^th
1906 Jun-Jun	20	2	10.0%	25^th
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	33	2	6.1%	31^st
Dec 1907-May 1908	267	32	12.0%	35^th
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	42	7	16.7%	41^st
1911 Apr-Aug	46	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1912 Apr-Jul	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1912 Aug-Aug	29	1	3.4%	14^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	65	1	1.5%	7^th
1913 Apr-Jul	21	2	9.5%	19^th
1913 Aug-Nov	41	11	26.8%	13^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	24	2	8.3%	28^th
1914 Mar-May	34	2	5.9%	9^th
1914 Jun-Aug	62	1	1.6%	6^th
1914 Sep-Oct	28	21	75.0%	90^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	67	17	25.4%	70^th
1917 Apr-Jun	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1917 Jul-Sep	10	1	10.0%	28^th
1917 Oct-Oct	3	1	33.3%	50^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	33	3	9.1%	40^th
1918 Mar-May	63	2	3.2%	6^th
1918 Jun-Aug	33	3	9.1%	16^th
1918 Sep-Oct	14	1	7.1%	17^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	63	3	4.8%	12^th
1919 May-Jul	61	1	1.6%	9^th
1919 Aug-Oct	52	7	13.5%	31^st
1919 Nov-Nov	16	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	39	1	2.6%	9^th
1920 Mar-May	70	2	2.9%	7^th
1920 Jun-Jun	8	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	91	4	4.4%	20^th
1921 Apr-Jun	57	9	15.8%	56^th
1921 Jul-Aug	48	2	4.2%	14^th
1921 Oct-Nov	25	18	72.0%	93^rd
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	48	6	12.5%	24^th
1922 Mar-May	47	10	21.3%	47^th
1922 Jun-Aug	52	1	1.9%	6^th
1922 Sep-Sep	13	1	7.7%	19^th
1922 Nov-Nov	5	1	20.0%	70^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	58	13	22.4%	56^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1924 Mar-May	82	1	1.2%	15^th
1924 Jun-Jun	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	54	2	3.7%	45^th
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	21	1	4.8%	57^th
1926 Mar-May	36	2	5.6%	59^th
1926 Jun-Jul	22	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	32	1	3.1%	59^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	50	4	8.0%	39^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	18	2	11.1%	29^th
1929 Apr-Jun	12	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	8	2	25.0%	53^rd
1930 Mar-May	26	1	3.8%	16^th
1930 Jun-Jul	19	1	5.3%	31^st
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	32	3	9.4%	48^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1932 Mar-May	35	1	2.9%	35^th
1932 Jun-Jul	30	1	3.3%	14^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	36	2	5.6%	31^st

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