Francis Newlands, former Senator from Nevada

Dates	Title	Representing
1915-1917	Senator	Nevada
1903-1915	Senator	Nevada
1901-1903	Representative	Nevada's At-Large District
1899-1901	Representative	Nevada's At-Large District
1895-1899	Representative	Nevada's At-Large District
1893-1895	Representative	Nevada's At-Large District

Voting Record

From Dec 1903 to Jan 1918, Newlands missed 1,008 of 2,091 roll call votes, which is 48.2%. This is worse than the median of 27.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 1918. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	35	14	40.0%	60^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	19	33.9%	75^th
1906 Jan-Feb	8	1	12.5%	44^th
1906 Mar-May	49	13	26.5%	78^th
1906 Jun-Jun	30	30	100.0%	94^th
1907 Jan-Mar	36	11	30.6%	62^nd
1908 Mar-May	47	29	61.7%	73^rd
1909 Jan-Mar	34	18	52.9%	81^st
1909 Apr-Aug	125	34	27.2%	70^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	4	57.1%	80^th
1910 Mar-May	35	21	60.0%	77^th
1910 Jun-Jun	41	6	14.6%	27^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	50	15	30.0%	63^rd
1911 May-Aug	94	19	20.2%	59^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	34	9	26.5%	60^th
1912 Apr-Jul	100	50	50.0%	82^nd
1912 Aug-Aug	51	14	27.5%	62^nd
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	109	45	41.3%	78^th
1913 Apr-Jul	38	28	73.7%	96^th
1913 Aug-Nov	108	107	99.1%	97^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	59	10	16.9%	45^th
1914 Mar-May	58	37	63.8%	87^th
1914 Jun-Aug	119	49	41.2%	55^th
1914 Sep-Oct	64	45	70.3%	75^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	85	72.6%	99^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	3	60.0%	70^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	40	12	30.0%	71^st
1916 Mar-May	105	60	57.1%	84^th
1916 Jun-Aug	87	56	64.4%	90^th
1916 Sep-Sep	13	6	46.2%	66^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	157	75	47.8%	81^st
1917 Apr-Jun	57	42	73.7%	93^rd
1917 Jul-Sep	102	37	36.3%	81^st
1917 Oct-Oct	10	2	20.0%	52^nd
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	9	2	22.2%	55^th
1917 Mar-Mar	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