Eugene McCarthy, former Senator from Minnesota

Dates	Title	Representing
1959-1971	Senator	Minnesota
1957-1958	Representative	Minnesota's 4^th District
1953-1956	Representative	Minnesota's 4^th District
1949-1952	Representative	Minnesota's 4^th District

Voting Record

From Jan 1959 to Dec 1970, McCarthy missed 972 of 3,010 roll call votes, which is 32.3%. This is worse than the median of 11.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1970. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 Jan-Apr	55	1	1.8%	53^rd
1959 May-Aug	117	13	11.1%	81^st
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	73	16	21.9%	89^th
1960 May-Aug	120	6	5.0%	55^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	30	9	30.0%	97^th
1961 May-Aug	114	11	9.6%	88^th
1961 Sep-Sep	33	3	9.1%	72^nd
1962 Jan-Mar	21	4	19.0%	89^th
1962 Apr-Jun	62	1	1.6%	18^th
1962 Jul-Sep	114	6	5.3%	47^th
1962 Oct-Oct	16	1	6.3%	81^st
1963 Jan-Mar	7	1	14.3%	79^th
1963 Apr-Jun	67	3	4.5%	53^rd
1963 Jul-Sep	54	4	7.4%	51^st
1963 Oct-Dec	82	9	11.0%	76^th
1964 Jan-Mar	55	4	7.3%	80^th
1964 Apr-Jun	132	4	3.0%	77^th
1964 Jul-Sep	103	4	3.9%	44^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	1	100.0%	91^st
1965 Jan-Mar	31	18	58.1%	97^th
1965 Apr-Jun	105	12	11.4%	63^rd
1965 Jul-Sep	95	61	64.2%	99^th
1965 Oct-Oct	15	3	20.0%	53^rd
1966 Jan-Mar	28	5	17.9%	68^th
1966 Apr-Jun	56	7	12.5%	36^th
1966 Jul-Sep	119	26	21.8%	82^nd
1966 Oct-Oct	35	2	5.7%	18^th
1967 Jan-Mar	52	12	23.1%	77^th
1967 Apr-Jun	70	14	20.0%	81^st
1967 Jul-Sep	77	15	19.5%	80^th
1967 Oct-Dec	110	63	57.3%	95^th
1968 Jan-Mar	69	60	87.0%	98^th
1968 Apr-Jun	90	89	98.9%	99^th
1968 Jul-Sep	88	86	97.7%	98^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	26	96.3%	91^st
1969 Jan-Mar	16	4	25.0%	95^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	7	29.2%	89^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	6	13.6%	81^st
1969 Oct-Dec	152	72	47.4%	95^th
1970 Jan-Mar	100	65	65.0%	97^th
1970 Apr-Jun	91	51	56.0%	96^th
1970 Jul-Sep	120	84	70.0%	97^th
1970 Oct-Dec	105	83	79.0%	96^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