Harley Kilgore, former Senator from West Virginia

Dates	Title	Representing
1953-1956	Senator	West Virginia
1947-1952	Senator	West Virginia
1941-1946	Senator	West Virginia

Voting Record

From Jan 1941 to Feb 1956, Kilgore missed 161 of 1,957 roll call votes, which is 8.2%. This is worse than the median of 2.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Feb 1956. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1941 Jan-Mar	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	31	2	6.5%	29^th
1941 Jul-Sep	23	5	21.7%	47^th
1941 Oct-Dec	21	2	9.5%	69^th
1942 Jan-Mar	23	2	8.7%	47^th
1942 Apr-Jun	28	8	28.6%	71^st
1942 Jul-Sep	18	4	22.2%	53^rd
1942 Oct-Dec	24	7	29.2%	53^rd
1943 Jan-Mar	20	10	50.0%	95^th
1943 Apr-Jun	46	22	47.8%	89^th
1943 Jul-Sep	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Oct-Dec	30	5	16.7%	63^rd
1944 Jan-Mar	49	12	24.5%	79^th
1944 Apr-Jun	23	7	30.4%	68^th
1944 Aug-Sep	7	1	14.3%	53^rd
1944 Nov-Dec	11	5	45.5%	82^nd
1945 Jan-Mar	17	2	11.8%	87^th
1945 Apr-Jun	39	4	10.3%	81^st
1945 Jul-Sep	27	4	14.8%	84^th
1945 Oct-Dec	23	5	21.7%	81^st
1946 Jan-Mar	13	4	30.8%	87^th
1946 Apr-Jun	70	14	20.0%	90^th
1946 Jul-Aug	46	2	4.3%	74^th
1947 Jan-Mar	29	6	20.7%	98^th
1947 Apr-Jun	52	5	9.6%	88^th
1947 Jul-Jul	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Nov-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Feb-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Apr-Jun	71	1	1.4%	52^nd
1948 Aug-Aug	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	82	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	80	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Mar	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Apr-Jun	67	1	1.5%	54^th
1951 Jul-Sep	91	5	5.5%	66^th
1951 Oct-Oct	15	2	13.3%	82^nd
1952 Jan-Mar	12	1	8.3%	81^st
1952 Apr-Jun	94	4	4.3%	60^th
1952 Jul-Jul	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Sep	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	6	23.1%	90^th
1955 Apr-Jun	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	1	4.3%	55^th
1956 Jan-Mar	11	2	18.2%	97^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