Ernest Gruening, former Senator from Alaska

Dates	Title	Representing
1959-1968	Senator	Alaska

Voting Record

From Jan 1959 to Oct 1968, Gruening missed 445 of 2,274 roll call votes, which is 19.6%. This is worse than the median of 9.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1968. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 Jan-Apr	56	2	3.6%	66^th
1959 May-Aug	121	6	5.0%	59^th
1959 Sep-Sep	29	9	31.0%	92^nd
1960 Jan-Apr	76	3	3.9%	30^th
1960 May-Aug	119	5	4.2%	48^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	3	9.7%	82^nd
1961 May-Aug	127	19	15.0%	96^th
1961 Sep-Sep	31	12	38.7%	99^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	50	15	30.0%	97^th
1962 Jul-Sep	80	33	41.3%	99^th
1962 Oct-Oct	5	5	100.0%	97^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	2	25.0%	82^nd
1963 Apr-Jun	70	7	10.0%	79^th
1963 Jul-Sep	54	12	22.2%	94^th
1963 Oct-Dec	83	2	2.4%	19^th
1964 Jan-Mar	55	2	3.6%	64^th
1964 Apr-Jun	135	4	3.0%	74^th
1964 Jul-Sep	103	13	12.6%	76^th
1965 Jan-Mar	31	17	54.8%	95^th
1965 Apr-Jun	99	15	15.2%	76^th
1965 Jul-Sep	99	6	6.1%	45^th
1965 Oct-Oct	14	3	21.4%	62^nd
1966 Jan-Mar	26	2	7.7%	46^th
1966 Apr-Jun	53	16	30.2%	82^nd
1966 Jul-Sep	115	45	39.1%	94^th
1966 Oct-Oct	28	16	57.1%	86^th
1967 Jan-Mar	50	25	50.0%	98^th
1967 Apr-Jun	66	19	28.8%	84^th
1967 Jul-Sep	75	13	17.3%	72^nd
1967 Oct-Dec	105	19	18.1%	60^th
1968 Jan-Mar	69	2	2.9%	18^th
1968 Apr-Jun	80	35	43.8%	88^th
1968 Jul-Sep	78	43	55.1%	90^th
1968 Oct-Oct	26	15	57.7%	68^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

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Sen. Ernest Gruening [D-AK, 1959-1968] leaves office as Senator from Alaska

Oct 14, 1968

Elections and Offices

Sen. Ernest Gruening [D-AK, 1959-1968] takes office as Senator from Alaska

Jan 07, 1959

Sen. Ernest Gruening

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