Francis Case, former Senator from South Dakota

Dates	Title	Representing
1957-1962	Senator	South Dakota
1951-1956	Senator	South Dakota
1947-1951	Representative	South Dakota's 2^nd District
1939-1946	Representative	South Dakota's 2^nd District
1937-1938	Representative	South Dakota's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Jan 1951 to Jun 1962, Case missed 46 of 1,773 roll call votes, which is 2.6%. This is better than the median of 5.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1962. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1951 Jan-Mar	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Apr-Jun	69	1	1.4%	52^nd
1951 Jul-Sep	93	1	1.1%	29^th
1951 Oct-Oct	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Apr-Jun	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jul-Jul	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	42	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Sep	90	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	1	3.8%	34^th
1955 Apr-Jun	36	7	19.4%	95^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	32	2	6.3%	84^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	45	3	6.7%	57^th
1957 Jul-Aug	46	3	6.5%	71^st
1958 Feb-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Apr-Jun	84	1	1.2%	34^th
1958 Jul-Aug	74	7	9.5%	86^th
1959 Jan-Apr	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	126	7	5.6%	59^th
1959 Sep-Sep	27	5	18.5%	91^st
1960 Jan-Apr	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 May-Aug	120	3	2.5%	30^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	133	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Sep-Sep	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	4	18.2%	85^th
1962 Apr-Jun	47	1	2.1%	26^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