Edward Martin, former Senator from Pennsylvania

Dates	Title	Representing
1953-1958	Senator	Pennsylvania
1947-1952	Senator	Pennsylvania

Voting Record

From Jan 1947 to Aug 1958, Martin missed 47 of 1,752 roll call votes, which is 2.7%. This is better than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1958. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1947 Jan-Mar	34	1	2.9%	63^rd
1947 Apr-Jun	50	2	4.0%	76^th
1947 Jul-Jul	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Nov-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Feb-Mar	28	3	10.7%	86^th
1948 Apr-Jun	68	1	1.5%	55^th
1948 Aug-Aug	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	82	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	75	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	83	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Mar	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Apr-Jun	64	5	7.8%	92^nd
1951 Jul-Sep	93	4	4.3%	56^th
1951 Oct-Oct	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Apr-Jun	92	8	8.7%	84^th
1952 Jul-Jul	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Sep	91	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	3	11.5%	56^th
1955 Apr-Jun	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	45	3	6.7%	53^rd
1957 Jul-Aug	46	6	13.0%	81^st
1958 Feb-Mar	38	3	7.9%	74^th
1958 Apr-Jun	83	3	3.6%	49^th
1958 Jul-Aug	76	5	6.6%	66^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