Joseph Bailey, former Senator from Texas

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1913	Senator	Texas
1901-1907	Senator	Texas
1899-1901	Representative	Texas's 5^th District
1895-1899	Representative	Texas's 5^th District
1893-1895	Representative	Texas's 5^th District
1891-1893	Representative	Texas's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1901 to Dec 1912, Bailey missed 438 of 911 roll call votes, which is 48.1%. This is worse than the median of 26.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1912. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	21	8	38.1%	86^th
1902 Mar-May	47	9	19.1%	59^th
1902 Jun-Jun	23	3	13.0%	50^th
1903 Jan-Mar	18	11	61.1%	77^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	30	15	50.0%	68^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	53	7	13.2%	38^th
1906 Jan-Feb	4	3	75.0%	91^st
1906 Mar-May	48	16	33.3%	88^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	11	35.5%	44^th
1907 Jan-Mar	38	37	97.4%	97^th
1908 Mar-May	46	35	76.1%	87^th
1909 Jan-Mar	33	9	27.3%	55^th
1909 Apr-Aug	115	36	31.3%	72^nd
1910 Jan-Feb	6	2	33.3%	51^st
1910 Mar-May	36	18	50.0%	79^th
1910 Jun-Jun	41	17	41.5%	66^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	47	25	53.2%	92^nd
1911 May-Aug	94	17	18.1%	49^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	27	14	51.9%	85^th
1912 Apr-Jul	97	95	97.9%	98^th
1912 Aug-Aug	50	46	92.0%	84^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	5	4	80.0%	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