Sen. Herbert Hitchcock

Former Senator from South Dakota

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1936-1938	Senator	South Dakota

Voting Record

From Jan 1937 to Jun 1938, Hitchcock missed 12 of 173 roll call votes, which is 6.9%. This is better than the median of 14.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1938. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1937 Jan-Mar	19	1	5.3%	37^th
1937 Apr-Jun	21	1	4.8%	14^th
1937 Jul-Aug	31	1	3.2%	28^th
1937 Nov-Dec	21	2	9.5%	49^th
1938 Jan-Jun	81	7	8.6%	24^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. Herbert Hitchcock [D-SD, 1936-1938] leaves office as Senator from South Dakota

Jun 16, 1938

Elections and Offices

Sen. Herbert Hitchcock [D-SD, 1936-1938] takes office as Senator from South Dakota

Jan 01, 1936