John Gear, former Senator from Iowa

Dates	Title	Representing
1895-1901	Senator	Iowa
1893-1895	Representative	Iowa's 1^st District
1889-1891	Representative	Iowa's 1^st District
1887-1889	Representative	Iowa's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1895 to Jun 1900, Gear missed 194 of 589 roll call votes, which is 32.9%. This is worse than the median of 31.1% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1900. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	28	5	17.9%	38^th
1896 Mar-May	52	20	38.5%	71^st
1896 Jun-Jun	13	9	69.2%	77^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	63	47	74.6%	91^st
1897 Mar-Jul	182	35	19.2%	29^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	21	6	28.6%	68^th
1898 Mar-May	45	8	17.8%	26^th
1898 Jun-Jul	51	14	27.5%	64^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	47	10	21.3%	39^th
Dec 1899-Feb 1900	18	7	38.9%	79^th
1900 Mar-May	57	25	43.9%	54^th
1900 Jun-Jun	12	8	66.7%	94^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