Charles Townsend, former Senator from Michigan

Dates	Title	Representing
1911-1923	Senator	Michigan
1907-1911	Representative	Michigan's 2^nd District
1905-1907	Representative	Michigan's 2^nd District
1903-1905	Representative	Michigan's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From May 1911 to Mar 1923, Townsend missed 766 of 2,789 roll call votes, which is 27.5%. This is worse than the median of 27.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1923. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1911 May-Aug	79	9	11.4%	42^nd
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	34	2	5.9%	13^th
1912 Apr-Jul	99	10	10.1%	27^th
1912 Aug-Aug	50	2	4.0%	9^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	108	9	8.3%	23^rd
1913 Apr-Jul	36	2	5.6%	12^th
1913 Aug-Nov	104	65	62.5%	93^rd
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	55	7	12.7%	37^th
1914 Mar-May	55	12	21.8%	34^th
1914 Jun-Aug	116	66	56.9%	71^st
1914 Sep-Oct	61	25	41.0%	54^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	113	28	24.8%	41^st
1913 Mar-Mar	4	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	39	17	43.6%	84^th
1916 Mar-May	99	59	59.6%	88^th
1916 Jun-Aug	77	14	18.2%	26^th
1916 Sep-Sep	10	10	100.0%	91^st
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	155	33	21.3%	38^th
1917 Apr-Jun	60	7	11.7%	31^st
1917 Jul-Sep	98	51	52.0%	94^th
1917 Oct-Oct	9	9	100.0%	87^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	6	17.6%	52^nd
1918 Mar-May	53	8	15.1%	22^nd
1918 Jun-Aug	42	22	52.4%	83^rd
1918 Sep-Nov	19	5	26.3%	40^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	51	22	43.1%	71^st
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 May-Jul	29	20	69.0%	95^th
1919 Aug-Oct	30	6	20.0%	60^th
1919 Nov-Nov	78	7	9.0%	63^rd
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	51	17	33.3%	52^nd
1920 Mar-May	99	19	19.2%	42^nd
1920 Jun-Jun	19	3	15.8%	37^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	87	22	25.3%	56^th
1921 Apr-Jun	64	14	21.9%	64^th
1921 Jul-Sep	39	10	25.6%	38^th
1921 Oct-Nov	90	2	2.2%	5^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	39	5	12.8%	23^rd
1922 Mar-May	199	8	4.0%	4^th
1922 Jun-Aug	205	98	47.8%	67^th
1922 Sep-Sep	14	7	50.0%	58^th
1922 Nov-Nov	13	1	7.7%	19^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	70	26	37.1%	66^th
1921 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	68^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