Sen. Frank Moss

Former Senator from Utah

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1959-1976	Senator	Utah

Sponsorship Analysis

Moss was a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Moss’s time serving in the Senate.

Use this chart to compare Moss to other members of the Senate in the 94^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Jan 1959 to Oct 1976, Moss missed 1,025 of 6,385 roll call votes, which is 16.1%. This is worse than the median of 11.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1976. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 Jan-Apr	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	126	16	12.7%	85^th
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	74	19	25.7%	88^th
1960 May-Aug	120	2	1.7%	15^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	4	12.9%	94^th
1961 May-Aug	133	5	3.8%	65^th
1961 Sep-Sep	32	10	31.3%	97^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	62	7	11.3%	74^th
1962 Jul-Sep	99	7	7.1%	61^st
1962 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	59	4	6.8%	67^th
1963 Jul-Sep	57	8	14.0%	71^st
1963 Oct-Dec	83	2	2.4%	18^th
1964 Jan-Mar	58	6	10.3%	89^th
1964 Apr-Jun	134	8	6.0%	87^th
1964 Jul-Sep	104	7	6.7%	51^st
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	29	16	55.2%	98^th
1965 Apr-Jun	106	23	21.7%	87^th
1965 Jul-Sep	105	10	9.5%	72^nd
1965 Oct-Oct	15	6	40.0%	87^th
1966 Jan-Mar	27	9	33.3%	94^th
1966 Apr-Jun	55	9	16.4%	54^th
1966 Jul-Sep	113	10	8.8%	58^th
1966 Oct-Oct	33	12	36.4%	69^th
1967 Jan-Mar	53	9	17.0%	65^th
1967 Apr-Jun	70	8	11.4%	54^th
1967 Jul-Sep	78	16	20.5%	85^th
1967 Oct-Dec	107	24	22.4%	72^nd
1968 Jan-Mar	67	8	11.9%	54^th
1968 Apr-Jun	89	10	11.2%	37^th
1968 Jul-Sep	88	10	11.4%	41^st
1968 Oct-Oct	27	3	11.1%	37^th
1969 Jan-Mar	15	1	6.7%	74^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	15	62.5%	98^th
1969 Jul-Sep	44	4	9.1%	66^th
1969 Oct-Dec	155	18	11.6%	55^th
1970 Jan-Mar	98	26	26.5%	85^th
1970 Apr-Jun	90	7	7.8%	42^nd
1970 Jul-Sep	118	66	55.9%	91^st
1970 Oct-Dec	102	43	42.2%	80^th
1971 Feb-Mar	23	4	17.4%	63^rd
1971 Apr-Jun	88	17	19.3%	58^th
1971 Jul-Sep	105	28	26.7%	88^th
1971 Oct-Dec	201	25	12.4%	53^rd
1972 Jan-Mar	119	27	22.7%	75^th
1972 Apr-Jun	129	47	36.4%	84^th
1972 Jul-Sep	203	24	11.8%	60^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Jan-Mar	67	3	4.5%	30^th
1973 Apr-Jun	189	15	7.9%	51^st
1973 Jul-Sep	165	38	23.0%	89^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	25	14.9%	63^rd
1974 Jan-Mar	93	13	14.0%	64^th
1974 Apr-Jun	177	22	12.4%	70^th
1974 Jul-Sep	137	11	8.0%	45^th
1974 Oct-Dec	131	30	22.9%	76^th
1975 Jan-Mar	117	0	0.0%	0^th
1975 Apr-Jun	139	13	9.4%	52^nd
1975 Jul-Sep	166	32	19.3%	85^th
1975 Oct-Dec	180	24	13.3%	71^st
1976 Jan-Mar	103	16	15.5%	70^th
1976 Apr-Jun	263	55	20.9%	81^st
1976 Jul-Sep	313	88	28.1%	82^nd
1976 Oct-Oct	13	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
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Frank Moss [D-UT, 1959-1976] leaves office as Senator from Utah

Oct 01, 1976

Elections and Offices

Sen. Frank Moss [D-UT, 1959-1976] takes office as Senator from Utah

Jan 07, 1959