Claude Parsons, former Representative from Illinois's 24th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1939-1941	Representative	Illinois's 24^th District
1937-1938	Representative	Illinois's 24^th District
1935-1936	Representative	Illinois's 24^th District
1931-1934	Representative	Illinois's 24^th District
1929-1931	Representative	Illinois's 24^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1930 to Dec 1940, Parsons missed 34 of 879 roll call votes, which is 3.9%. This is better than the median of 4.6% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1940. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	33	2	6.1%	31^st
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1932 Mar-May	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1932 Jun-Jul	30	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1933 Mar-Jun	61	0	0.0%	0^th
1934 Jan-Jun	81	3	3.7%	20^th
1935 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Apr-Jun	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Jul-Aug	58	0	0.0%	0^th
1936 Jan-Jun	80	6	7.5%	22^nd
1937 Jan-Mar	19	5	26.3%	85^th
1937 Apr-Jun	38	6	15.8%	57^th
1937 Jul-Aug	25	10	40.0%	87^th
1937 Dec-Dec	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1938 Jan-Jun	61	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	42	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jul-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Oct-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Apr-Jun	61	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jul-Sep	25	1	4.0%	58^th
1940 Oct-Dec	10	1	10.0%	49^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