George Bender, former Senator from Ohio

Dates	Title	Representing
1954-1956	Senator	Ohio
1951-1952	Representative	Ohio's At-Large District
1947-1948	Representative	Ohio's At-Large District
1939-1946	Representative	Ohio

Voting Record

From Jan 1955 to Jul 1956, Bender missed 14 of 201 roll call votes, which is 7.0%. This is worse than the median of 2.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 1956. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1955 Jan-Mar	26	3	11.5%	57^th
1955 Apr-Jun	36	6	16.7%	88^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	44	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	40	5	12.5%	90^th
1956 Jul-Jul	32	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