John Shafroth, former Senator from Colorado

Dates	Title	Representing
1913-1919	Senator	Colorado
1903-1905	Representative	Colorado's 1^st District
1901-1903	Representative	Colorado's 1^st District
1899-1901	Representative	Colorado's 1^st District
1895-1899	Representative	Colorado's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Mar 1913 to Mar 1919, Shafroth missed 93 of 1,336 roll call votes, which is 7.0%. This is better than the median of 27.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1919. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1913 Apr-Jul	36	6	16.7%	42^nd
1913 Aug-Nov	105	8	7.6%	18^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	59	4	6.8%	12^th
1914 Mar-May	58	4	6.9%	6^th
1914 Jun-Aug	119	3	2.5%	1^st
1914 Sep-Oct	64	2	3.1%	1^st
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	10	8.5%	7^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	1	20.0%	36^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1916 Mar-May	105	15	14.3%	17^th
1916 Jun-Aug	87	9	10.3%	5^th
1916 Sep-Sep	12	3	25.0%	56^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	151	16	10.6%	10^th
1917 Apr-Jun	60	1	1.7%	2^nd
1917 Jul-Sep	103	2	1.9%	3^rd
1917 Oct-Oct	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	1	2.9%	8^th
1918 Mar-May	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1918 Jun-Aug	42	2	4.8%	6^th
1918 Sep-Nov	19	2	10.5%	10^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	54	4	7.4%	8^th
1917 Mar-Mar	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