John Weeks, former Senator from Massachusetts

Dates	Title	Representing
1913-1919	Senator	Massachusetts
1907-1913	Representative	Massachusetts's 12^th District
1905-1907	Representative	Massachusetts's 12^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1913 to Mar 1919, Weeks missed 490 of 1,298 roll call votes, which is 37.8%. This is worse 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	38	8	21.1%	57^th
1913 Aug-Nov	107	35	32.7%	69^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	58	4	6.9%	16^th
1914 Mar-May	54	24	44.4%	69^th
1914 Jun-Aug	119	60	50.4%	67^th
1914 Sep-Oct	63	41	65.1%	70^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	114	47	41.2%	74^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	5	100.0%	80^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	38	11	28.9%	70^th
1916 Mar-May	99	50	50.5%	77^th
1916 Jun-Aug	84	29	34.5%	64^th
1916 Sep-Sep	12	2	16.7%	49^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	156	41	26.3%	48^th
1917 Apr-Jun	58	12	20.7%	63^rd
1917 Jul-Sep	93	30	32.3%	77^th
1917 Oct-Oct	10	1	10.0%	27^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	30	18	60.0%	85^th
1918 Mar-May	49	21	42.9%	69^th
1918 Jun-Aug	39	23	59.0%	87^th
1918 Sep-Nov	19	15	78.9%	89^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	52	13	25.0%	38^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