James Murray, former Senator from Montana

Dates	Title	Representing
1937-1960	Senator	Montana
1934-1936	Senator	Montana

Voting Record

From Jan 1935 to Sep 1960, Murray missed 410 of 3,323 roll call votes, which is 12.3%. This is worse than the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Sep 1960. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1935 Jan-Mar	37	2	5.4%	20^th
1935 Apr-Jun	49	3	6.1%	50^th
1935 Jul-Aug	46	6	13.0%	33^rd
1936 Jan-Jun	60	8	13.3%	17^th
1937 Jan-Mar	19	2	10.5%	56^th
1937 Apr-Jun	21	3	14.3%	56^th
1937 Jul-Aug	31	3	9.7%	33^rd
1937 Nov-Dec	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1938 Jan-Jun	80	11	13.8%	30^th
1939 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	35	1	2.9%	18^th
1939 Jul-Aug	41	4	9.8%	45^th
1939 Oct-Nov	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	44	7	15.9%	45^th
1940 Apr-Jun	64	6	9.4%	27^th
1940 Jul-Sep	37	11	29.7%	82^nd
1940 Oct-Nov	4	2	50.0%	82^nd
1941 Jan-Jan	1	1	100.0%	82^nd
1941 Jan-Mar	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	30	9	30.0%	71^st
1941 Jul-Sep	23	16	69.6%	93^rd
1941 Oct-Dec	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Jan-Mar	23	1	4.3%	23^rd
1942 Apr-Jun	28	15	53.6%	85^th
1942 Jul-Sep	19	8	42.1%	85^th
1942 Oct-Dec	23	14	60.9%	92^nd
1943 Jan-Mar	20	7	35.0%	87^th
1943 Apr-Jun	51	12	23.5%	73^rd
1943 Jul-Sep	20	10	50.0%	87^th
1943 Oct-Dec	27	15	55.6%	93^rd
1944 Jan-Mar	51	15	29.4%	87^th
1944 Apr-Jun	22	10	45.5%	80^th
1944 Aug-Sep	7	4	57.1%	87^th
1944 Nov-Dec	16	1	6.3%	44^th
1945 Jan-Mar	17	1	5.9%	44^th
1945 Apr-Jun	40	1	2.5%	32^nd
1945 Jul-Sep	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Oct-Dec	22	9	40.9%	88^th
1946 Jan-Mar	13	7	53.8%	88^th
1946 Apr-Jun	74	2	2.7%	60^th
1946 Jul-Aug	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Jan-Mar	33	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Apr-Jun	56	6	10.7%	86^th
1947 Jul-Jul	39	1	2.6%	48^th
1947 Nov-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Feb-Mar	28	2	7.1%	83^rd
1948 Apr-Jun	72	3	4.2%	83^rd
1948 Aug-Aug	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jan-Mar	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	80	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	76	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	49	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	52	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	75	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	10	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	60	11	18.3%	96^th
1951 Jul-Sep	89	11	12.4%	92^nd
1951 Oct-Oct	15	3	20.0%	84^th
1952 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Apr-Jun	88	34	38.6%	98^th
1952 Jul-Jul	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	48	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	3	11.5%	57^th
1955 Apr-Jun	33	24	72.7%	99^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	3	13.0%	84^th
1956 Jan-Mar	43	3	7.0%	91^st
1956 Apr-Jun	49	1	2.0%	44^th
1956 Jul-Jul	30	5	16.7%	99^th
1957 Jan-Mar	15	5	33.3%	99^th
1957 Apr-Jun	45	6	13.3%	76^th
1957 Jul-Aug	44	10	22.7%	91^st
1958 Feb-Mar	35	10	28.6%	96^th
1958 Apr-Jun	82	8	9.8%	85^th
1958 Jul-Aug	66	21	31.8%	96^th
1959 Jan-Apr	56	2	3.6%	61^st
1959 May-Aug	122	1	0.8%	17^th
1959 Sep-Sep	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	71	5	7.0%	50^th
1960 May-Aug	119	5	4.2%	43^rd
1960 Sep-Sep	5	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