John Cooper, former Senator from Kentucky

Dates	Title	Representing
1961-1972	Senator	Kentucky
1956-1960	Senator	Kentucky
1952-1954	Senator	Kentucky
1946-1948	Senator	Kentucky

Voting Record

From Jan 1947 to Oct 1972, Cooper missed 410 of 4,780 roll call votes, which is 8.6%. This is better than the median of 11.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1972. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1947 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Apr-Jun	56	0	0.0%	0^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	73	3	4.1%	82^nd
1948 Aug-Aug	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	42	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Sep	91	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	45	1	2.2%	13^th
1957 Jul-Aug	45	1	2.2%	55^th
1958 Feb-Mar	36	2	5.6%	67^th
1958 Apr-Jun	83	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Jul-Aug	75	1	1.3%	41^st
1959 Jan-Apr	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	126	3	2.4%	28^th
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	77	3	3.9%	17^th
1960 May-Aug	121	9	7.4%	66^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	128	7	5.5%	81^st
1961 Sep-Sep	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	19	5	26.3%	96^th
1962 Apr-Jun	62	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jul-Sep	120	2	1.7%	19^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	68	4	5.9%	63^rd
1963 Jul-Sep	51	4	7.8%	55^th
1963 Oct-Dec	77	5	6.5%	56^th
1964 Jan-Mar	58	1	1.7%	39^th
1964 Apr-Jun	134	15	11.2%	95^th
1964 Jul-Sep	103	4	3.9%	42^nd
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	29	9	31.0%	86^th
1965 Apr-Jun	106	2	1.9%	6^th
1965 Jul-Sep	102	3	2.9%	20^th
1965 Oct-Oct	14	11	78.6%	97^th
1966 Jan-Mar	26	5	19.2%	80^th
1966 Apr-Jun	55	1	1.8%	6^th
1966 Jul-Sep	117	14	12.0%	61^st
1966 Oct-Oct	27	27	100.0%	94^th
1967 Jan-Mar	52	11	21.2%	74^th
1967 Apr-Jun	70	9	12.9%	62^nd
1967 Jul-Sep	78	3	3.8%	21^st
1967 Oct-Dec	108	59	54.6%	96^th
1968 Jan-Mar	69	1	1.4%	10^th
1968 Apr-Jun	93	10	10.8%	34^th
1968 Jul-Sep	81	12	14.8%	60^th
1968 Oct-Oct	25	18	72.0%	79^th
1969 Jan-Mar	17	4	23.5%	94^th
1969 Apr-Jun	24	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Jul-Sep	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1969 Oct-Dec	150	51	34.0%	94^th
1970 Jan-Mar	99	6	6.1%	34^th
1970 Apr-Jun	91	7	7.7%	42^nd
1970 Jul-Sep	120	8	6.7%	15^th
1970 Oct-Dec	103	9	8.7%	35^th
1971 Feb-Mar	25	4	16.0%	54^th
1971 Apr-Jun	89	9	10.1%	30^th
1971 Jul-Sep	109	14	12.8%	49^th
1971 Oct-Dec	201	10	5.0%	18^th
1972 Jan-Mar	117	12	10.3%	45^th
1972 Apr-Jun	129	2	1.6%	8^th
1972 Jul-Sep	206	6	2.9%	17^th
1972 Oct-Oct	75	3	4.0%	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