Joseph Guffey, former Senator from Pennsylvania

Dates	Title	Representing
1935-1946	Senator	Pennsylvania

Voting Record

From Jan 1935 to Aug 1946, Guffey missed 143 of 1,231 roll call votes, which is 11.6%. This is better than the median of 11.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1946. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1935 Jan-Mar	37	4	10.8%	63^rd
1935 Apr-Jun	47	2	4.3%	25^th
1935 Jul-Aug	45	4	8.9%	53^rd
1936 Jan-Jun	56	6	10.7%	44^th
1937 Jan-Mar	18	4	22.2%	81^st
1937 Apr-Jun	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Jul-Aug	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Nov-Dec	22	4	18.2%	67^th
1938 Jan-Jun	74	11	14.9%	47^th
1939 Jan-Mar	17	1	5.9%	52^nd
1939 Apr-Jun	36	2	5.6%	21^st
1939 Jul-Aug	35	1	2.9%	27^th
1939 Oct-Nov	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	43	1	2.3%	13^th
1940 Apr-Jun	63	8	12.7%	50^th
1940 Jul-Sep	35	8	22.9%	78^th
1940 Oct-Nov	5	1	20.0%	46^th
1941 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Mar	23	1	4.3%	54^th
1941 Apr-Jun	30	3	10.0%	34^th
1941 Jul-Sep	23	1	4.3%	17^th
1941 Oct-Dec	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Jan-Mar	23	6	26.1%	83^rd
1942 Apr-Jun	24	5	20.8%	49^th
1942 Jul-Sep	17	6	35.3%	70^th
1942 Oct-Dec	24	5	20.8%	51^st
1943 Jan-Mar	18	6	33.3%	78^th
1943 Apr-Jun	48	4	8.3%	40^th
1943 Jul-Sep	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Oct-Dec	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Jan-Mar	49	10	20.4%	65^th
1944 Apr-Jun	21	7	33.3%	72^nd
1944 Aug-Sep	7	2	28.6%	52^nd
1944 Nov-Dec	17	1	5.9%	32^nd
1945 Jan-Mar	17	2	11.8%	76^th
1945 Apr-Jun	40	3	7.5%	75^th
1945 Jul-Sep	27	7	25.9%	92^nd
1945 Oct-Dec	23	1	4.3%	32^nd
1946 Jan-Mar	13	3	23.1%	89^th
1946 Apr-Jun	70	10	14.3%	87^th
1946 Jul-Aug	48	3	6.3%	84^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

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Sen. Joseph Guffey [D-PA, 1935-1946] leaves office as Senator from Pennsylvania

Aug 02, 1946

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Sen. Joseph Guffey [D-PA, 1935-1946] takes office as Senator from Pennsylvania

Jan 03, 1935

Sen. Joseph Guffey

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