John Shields, former Senator from Tennessee

Dates	Title	Representing
1913-1925	Senator	Tennessee

Voting Record

From Mar 1913 to Mar 1925, Shields missed 1,171 of 2,665 roll call votes, which is 43.9%. This is worse than the median of 21.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1925. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1913 Apr-Jul	38	14	36.8%	86^th
1913 Aug-Nov	109	22	20.2%	61^st
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	59	14	23.7%	54^th
1914 Mar-May	58	35	60.3%	82^nd
1914 Jun-Aug	119	58	48.7%	64^th
1914 Sep-Oct	64	16	25.0%	39^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	61	52.1%	86^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	3	60.0%	68^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	39	7	17.9%	50^th
1916 Mar-May	103	51	49.5%	77^th
1916 Jun-Aug	87	33	37.9%	80^th
1916 Sep-Sep	13	1	7.7%	33^rd
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	157	37	23.6%	47^th
1917 Apr-Jun	60	13	21.7%	73^rd
1917 Jul-Sep	103	14	13.6%	56^th
1917 Oct-Oct	10	1	10.0%	27^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	5	14.7%	46^th
1918 Mar-May	54	10	18.5%	23^rd
1918 Jun-Aug	40	6	15.0%	30^th
1918 Sep-Nov	18	9	50.0%	73^rd
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	53	48	90.6%	98^th
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 May-Jul	31	17	54.8%	95^th
1919 Aug-Oct	31	7	22.6%	66^th
1919 Nov-Nov	68	15	22.1%	93^rd
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	53	47	88.7%	95^th
1920 Mar-May	101	33	32.7%	75^th
1920 Jun-Jun	19	14	73.7%	82^nd
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	86	51	59.3%	88^th
1921 Apr-Jun	63	35	55.6%	97^th
1921 Jul-Sep	37	33	89.2%	97^th
1921 Oct-Nov	89	52	58.4%	82^nd
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	40	19	47.5%	82^nd
1922 Mar-May	197	112	56.9%	83^rd
1922 Jun-Aug	209	159	76.1%	89^th
1922 Sep-Sep	15	4	26.7%	44^th
1922 Nov-Nov	13	13	100.0%	84^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	69	30	43.5%	78^th
1921 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	30	13	43.3%	92^nd
1924 Mar-May	78	11	14.1%	44^th
1924 Jun-Jun	17	3	17.6%	77^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	76	45	59.2%	92^nd

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

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Sen. John Shields [D-TN, 1913-1925] leaves office as Senator from Tennessee

Mar 03, 1925

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Sen. John Shields [D-TN, 1913-1925] takes office as Senator from Tennessee

Apr 07, 1913

Sen. John Shields

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