Carey Kefauver, former Senator from Tennessee

Dates	Title	Representing
1961-1963	Senator	Tennessee
1949-1960	Senator	Tennessee
1947-1948	Representative	Tennessee's 3^rd District
1939-1946	Representative	Tennessee's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Jan 1949 to Aug 1963, Kefauver missed 237 of 2,302 roll call votes, which is 10.3%. This is worse than the median of 5.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1963. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1949 Jan-Mar	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	80	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	76	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Mar	17	3	17.6%	94^th
1951 Apr-Jun	68	6	8.8%	94^th
1951 Jul-Sep	85	12	14.1%	94^th
1951 Oct-Oct	16	2	12.5%	73^rd
1952 Jan-Mar	12	1	8.3%	82^nd
1952 Apr-Jun	77	21	27.3%	97^th
1952 Jul-Jul	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Sep	71	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	1	3.8%	37^th
1955 Apr-Jun	36	2	5.6%	67^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	8	34.8%	98^th
1956 Jan-Mar	44	15	34.1%	98^th
1956 Apr-Jun	42	19	45.2%	98^th
1956 Jul-Jul	25	2	8.0%	88^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	2	12.5%	84^th
1957 Apr-Jun	43	7	16.3%	91^st
1957 Jul-Aug	44	1	2.3%	59^th
1958 Feb-Mar	36	2	5.6%	72^nd
1958 Apr-Jun	82	3	3.7%	59^th
1958 Jul-Aug	74	6	8.1%	85^th
1959 Jan-Apr	57	2	3.5%	61^st
1959 May-Aug	125	19	15.2%	96^th
1959 Sep-Sep	26	3	11.5%	87^th
1960 Jan-Apr	76	4	5.3%	36^th
1960 May-Aug	116	42	36.2%	99^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	5	100.0%	90^th
1961 Jan-Apr	29	1	3.4%	66^th
1961 May-Aug	130	12	9.2%	87^th
1961 Sep-Sep	35	2	5.7%	58^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	1	4.5%	48^th
1962 Apr-Jun	60	4	6.7%	52^nd
1962 Jul-Sep	114	6	5.3%	42^nd
1962 Oct-Oct	16	2	12.5%	86^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	2	25.0%	81^st
1963 Apr-Jun	63	16	25.4%	98^th
1963 Jul-Sep	16	3	18.8%	86^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