Dorsey Shackleford, former Representative from Missouri's 8th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1915-1919	Representative	Missouri's 8^th District
1907-1915	Representative	Missouri's 8^th District
1905-1907	Representative	Missouri's 8^th District
1903-1905	Representative	Missouri's 8^th District
1901-1903	Representative	Missouri's 8^th District
1899-1901	Representative	Missouri's 8^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1899 to Mar 1919, Shackleford missed 617 of 2,002 roll call votes, which is 30.8%. This is worse than the median of 24.2% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1919. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	20	6	30.0%	55^th
1900 Mar-May	48	14	29.2%	67^th
1900 Jun-Jun	16	5	31.3%	71^st
Dec 1900-Mar 1901	62	19	30.6%	55^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	18	6	33.3%	81^st
1902 Mar-May	22	9	40.9%	67^th
1902 Jun-Jul	28	8	28.6%	48^th
Dec 1902-Mar 1903	113	22	19.5%	37^th
1903 Nov-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	49	17	34.7%	73^rd
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	32	5	15.6%	31^st
Dec 1905-Feb 1906	24	1	4.2%	12^th
1906 Mar-May	56	12	21.4%	30^th
1906 Jun-Jun	20	13	65.0%	92^nd
Dec 1906-Mar 1907	34	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1907-May 1908	269	94	34.9%	64^th
Dec 1908-Mar 1909	42	3	7.1%	17^th
1909 Mar-Aug	36	7	19.4%	73^rd
Dec 1909-Feb 1910	18	3	16.7%	41^st
1910 Mar-May	60	4	6.7%	15^th
1910 Jun-Jun	18	6	33.3%	71^st
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	65	6	9.2%	26^th
1911 Apr-Aug	48	5	10.4%	35^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	58	4	6.9%	12^th
1912 Apr-Jul	57	29	50.9%	78^th
1912 Aug-Aug	29	9	31.0%	49^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	65	26	40.0%	76^th
1913 Apr-Jul	22	16	72.7%	83^rd
1913 Aug-Nov	42	19	45.2%	30^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	24	3	12.5%	36^th
1914 Mar-May	34	10	29.4%	64^th
1914 Jun-Aug	62	36	58.1%	69^th
1914 Sep-Oct	29	13	44.8%	65^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	67	11	16.4%	43^rd
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	14	3	21.4%	75^th
1916 Mar-May	50	8	16.0%	58^th
1916 Jun-Aug	20	10	50.0%	85^th
1916 Sep-Sep	3	3	100.0%	75^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	62	23	37.1%	89^th
1917 Apr-Jun	41	13	31.7%	89^th
1917 Jul-Sep	10	1	10.0%	20^th
1917 Oct-Oct	3	1	33.3%	41^st
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	33	4	12.1%	38^th
1918 Mar-May	63	15	23.8%	51^st
1918 Jun-Aug	33	30	90.9%	96^th
1918 Sep-Oct	14	14	100.0%	91^st
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	63	51	81.0%	95^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