Joel Clark, former Senator from Missouri

Dates	Title	Representing
1939-1944	Senator	Missouri
1933-1938	Senator	Missouri

Voting Record

From Feb 1933 to Dec 1944, Clark missed 151 of 1,269 roll call votes, which is 11.9%. This is better than the median of 16.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1944. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1933 Mar-Jun	96	5	5.2%	11^th
1934 Jan-Jun	126	5	4.0%	8^th
1933 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Jan-Mar	35	1	2.9%	30^th
1935 Apr-Jun	48	3	6.3%	33^rd
1935 Jul-Aug	42	4	9.5%	56^th
1936 Jan-Jun	57	4	7.0%	22^nd
1937 Jan-Mar	19	1	5.3%	37^th
1937 Apr-Jun	20	3	15.0%	56^th
1937 Jul-Aug	31	1	3.2%	27^th
1937 Nov-Dec	20	16	80.0%	98^th
1938 Jan-Jun	76	27	35.5%	81^st
1939 Jan-Mar	17	1	5.9%	48^th
1939 Apr-Jun	36	5	13.9%	48^th
1939 Jul-Aug	41	5	12.2%	50^th
1939 Oct-Nov	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	42	3	7.1%	40^th
1940 Apr-Jun	64	13	20.3%	76^th
1940 Jul-Sep	38	1	2.6%	16^th
1940 Oct-Nov	4	1	25.0%	61^st
1941 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Mar	23	3	13.0%	83^rd
1941 Apr-Jun	31	8	25.8%	65^th
1941 Jul-Sep	23	4	17.4%	43^rd
1941 Oct-Dec	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Jan-Mar	23	2	8.7%	31^st
1942 Apr-Jun	28	2	7.1%	17^th
1942 Jul-Sep	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Oct-Dec	24	9	37.5%	77^th
1943 Jan-Mar	19	4	21.1%	59^th
1943 Apr-Jun	51	3	5.9%	24^th
1943 Jul-Sep	19	1	5.3%	35^th
1943 Oct-Dec	30	3	10.0%	40^th
1944 Jan-Mar	50	1	2.0%	10^th
1944 Apr-Jun	22	9	40.9%	78^th
1944 Aug-Sep	7	3	42.9%	64^th
1944 Nov-Dec	16	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