Elbert Thomas, former Senator from Utah

Dates	Title	Representing
1939-1951	Senator	Utah
1933-1938	Senator	Utah

Voting Record

From Mar 1933 to Jan 1951, Thomas missed 200 of 2,093 roll call votes, which is 9.6%. This is worse than the median of 1.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 1951. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1933 Mar-Jun	97	6	6.2%	14^th
1934 Jan-Jun	128	11	8.6%	40^th
1933 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Jan-Mar	37	1	2.7%	6^th
1935 Apr-Jun	44	4	9.1%	53^rd
1935 Jul-Aug	38	10	26.3%	88^th
1936 Jan-Jun	58	4	6.9%	18^th
1937 Jan-Mar	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Apr-Jun	21	1	4.8%	13^th
1937 Jul-Aug	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Nov-Dec	22	1	4.5%	42^nd
1938 Jan-Jun	77	13	16.9%	56^th
1939 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	33	8	24.2%	81^st
1939 Jul-Aug	40	1	2.5%	13^th
1939 Oct-Nov	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	44	1	2.3%	9^th
1940 Apr-Jun	59	5	8.5%	41^st
1940 Jul-Sep	38	3	7.9%	41^st
1940 Oct-Nov	4	1	25.0%	63^rd
1941 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Mar	23	2	8.7%	79^th
1941 Apr-Jun	25	6	24.0%	61^st
1941 Jul-Sep	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Oct-Dec	21	4	19.0%	79^th
1942 Jan-Mar	21	1	4.8%	33^rd
1942 Apr-Jun	28	1	3.6%	15^th
1942 Jul-Sep	19	2	10.5%	21^st
1942 Oct-Dec	24	5	20.8%	46^th
1943 Jan-Mar	18	2	11.1%	53^rd
1943 Apr-Jun	50	6	12.0%	58^th
1943 Jul-Sep	20	1	5.0%	33^rd
1943 Oct-Dec	27	2	7.4%	44^th
1944 Jan-Mar	49	5	10.2%	39^th
1944 Apr-Jun	20	5	25.0%	60^th
1944 Aug-Sep	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Nov-Dec	13	5	38.5%	85^th
1945 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Apr-Jun	39	6	15.4%	93^rd
1945 Jul-Sep	27	8	29.6%	93^rd
1945 Oct-Dec	23	7	30.4%	87^th
1946 Jan-Mar	11	1	9.1%	77^th
1946 Apr-Jun	75	14	18.7%	92^nd
1946 Jul-Aug	48	5	10.4%	90^th
1947 Jan-Mar	34	7	20.6%	96^th
1947 Apr-Jun	49	15	30.6%	97^th
1947 Jul-Jul	35	8	22.9%	95^th
1947 Nov-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Feb-Mar	25	2	8.0%	85^th
1948 Apr-Jun	71	10	14.1%	91^st
1948 Aug-Aug	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	83	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	66	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^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