Henry Danforth, former Representative from New York's 39th District

Dates	Title	Representing
1915-1917	Representative	New York's 39^th District
1913-1915	Representative	New York's 39^th District
1911-1913	Representative	New York's 32^nd District

Voting Record

From Apr 1911 to Mar 1917, Danforth missed 208 of 689 roll call votes, which is 30.2%. This is worse than the median of 24.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1917. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1911 Apr-Aug	47	10	21.3%	57^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	58	22	37.9%	70^th
1912 Apr-Jul	57	16	28.1%	48^th
1912 Aug-Aug	29	1	3.4%	10^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	65	36	55.4%	90^th
1913 Apr-Jul	22	18	81.8%	96^th
1913 Aug-Nov	43	42	97.7%	98^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	24	3	12.5%	34^th
1914 Mar-May	34	7	20.6%	46^th
1914 Jun-Aug	59	12	20.3%	32^nd
1914 Sep-Oct	29	5	17.2%	38^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	67	16	23.9%	60^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	15	2	13.3%	54^th
1916 Mar-May	52	0	0.0%	0^th
1916 Jun-Aug	23	8	34.8%	65^th
1916 Sep-Sep	3	1	33.3%	50^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	62	9	14.5%	46^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