John “Chan” Gurney, former Senator from South Dakota

Dates	Title	Representing
1939-1951	Senator	South Dakota

Voting Record

From Jan 1939 to Jan 1951, Gurney missed 60 of 1,600 roll call votes, which is 3.8%. This is worse than the median of 1.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 1951. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1939 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	36	1	2.8%	19^th
1939 Jul-Aug	41	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Oct-Nov	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	44	2	4.5%	25^th
1940 Apr-Jun	64	3	4.7%	25^th
1940 Jul-Sep	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Oct-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Mar	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	31	2	6.5%	18^th
1941 Jul-Sep	23	6	26.1%	58^th
1941 Oct-Dec	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Jan-Mar	23	1	4.3%	15^th
1942 Apr-Jun	28	1	3.6%	15^th
1942 Jul-Sep	19	5	26.3%	54^th
1942 Oct-Dec	24	8	33.3%	64^th
1943 Jan-Mar	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Apr-Jun	51	2	3.9%	19^th
1943 Jul-Sep	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Oct-Dec	24	3	12.5%	58^th
1944 Jan-Mar	48	14	29.2%	77^th
1944 Apr-Jun	23	5	21.7%	56^th
1944 Aug-Sep	7	2	28.6%	58^th
1944 Nov-Dec	17	4	23.5%	65^th
1945 Jan-Mar	17	1	5.9%	50^th
1945 Apr-Jun	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Jul-Sep	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Oct-Dec	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Apr-Jun	75	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Jul-Aug	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Jan-Mar	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Apr-Jun	57	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	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Aug-Aug	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	86	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	52	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	80	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan	1	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

Recent Legislative Activity

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Sen. John “Chan” Gurney [R-SD, 1939-1951] leaves office as Senator from South Dakota

Jan 02, 1951

Elections and Offices

Sen. John “Chan” Gurney [R-SD, 1939-1951] takes office as Senator from South Dakota

Jan 03, 1939

Sen. John “Chan” Gurney

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