Sen. Frank Briggs

Former Senator from Missouri

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1945-1946	Senator	Missouri

Voting Record

From Feb 1945 to Aug 1946, Briggs missed 19 of 240 roll call votes, which is 7.9%. This is better than the median of 11.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1946. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1945 Jan-Mar	16	1	6.3%	70^th
1945 Apr-Jun	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Jul-Sep	27	1	3.7%	50^th
1945 Oct-Dec	23	4	17.4%	74^th
1946 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Apr-Jun	75	12	16.0%	88^th
1946 Jul-Aug	47	1	2.1%	60^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

Elections and Offices

Sen. Frank Briggs [D-MO, 1945-1946] leaves office as Senator from Missouri

Aug 02, 1946

Elections and Offices

Sen. Frank Briggs [D-MO, 1945-1946] takes office as Senator from Missouri

Jan 03, 1945