Sen. David Gambrell

Former Senator from Georgia

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1971-1972	Senator	Georgia

Voting Record

From Feb 1971 to Oct 1972, Gambrell missed 267 of 912 roll call votes, which is 29.3%. This is worse than the median of 11.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1972. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1971 Feb-Mar	25	7	28.0%	81^st
1971 Apr-Jun	85	9	10.6%	36^th
1971 Jul-Sep	109	8	7.3%	25^th
1971 Oct-Dec	197	53	26.9%	87^th
1972 Jan-Mar	114	15	13.2%	53^rd
1972 Apr-Jun	114	84	73.7%	94^th
1972 Jul-Sep	194	83	42.8%	90^th
1972 Oct-Oct	74	8	10.8%	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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. David Gambrell [D-GA, 1971-1972] leaves office as Senator from Georgia

Oct 18, 1972

Elections and Offices

Sen. David Gambrell [D-GA, 1971-1972] takes office as Senator from Georgia

Jan 21, 1971