Joseph Robinson, former Senator from Arkansas

Dates	Title	Representing
1931-1936	Senator	Arkansas
1925-1931	Senator	Arkansas
1913-1925	Senator	Arkansas
1907-1913	Representative	Arkansas's 6^th District
1905-1907	Representative	Arkansas's 6^th District
1903-1905	Representative	Arkansas's 6^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1913 to Jun 1936, Robinson missed 1,459 of 4,126 roll call votes, which is 35.4%. This is worse than the median of 15.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1936. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1913 Apr-Jul	37	6	16.2%	40^th
1913 Aug-Nov	108	11	10.2%	30^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	58	5	8.6%	20^th
1914 Mar-May	58	19	32.8%	50^th
1914 Jun-Aug	116	100	86.2%	80^th
1914 Sep-Oct	63	38	60.3%	60^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	15	12.8%	30^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	40	9	22.5%	45^th
1916 Mar-May	104	54	51.9%	82^nd
1916 Jun-Aug	87	51	58.6%	82^nd
1916 Sep-Sep	13	2	15.4%	64^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	157	48	30.6%	64^th
1917 Apr-Jun	60	8	13.3%	44^th
1917 Jul-Sep	100	25	25.0%	89^th
1917 Oct-Oct	10	1	10.0%	39^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	2	5.9%	22^nd
1918 Mar-May	51	24	47.1%	72^nd
1918 Jun-Aug	42	20	47.6%	94^th
1918 Sep-Nov	19	3	15.8%	22^nd
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	53	30	56.6%	94^th
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 May-Jul	30	11	36.7%	86^th
1919 Aug-Oct	31	10	32.3%	76^th
1919 Nov-Nov	77	11	14.3%	90^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	52	29	55.8%	82^nd
1920 Mar-May	101	60	59.4%	91^st
1920 Jun-Jun	19	4	21.1%	64^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	84	33	39.3%	86^th
1921 Apr-Jun	63	28	44.4%	95^th
1921 Jul-Sep	39	26	66.7%	91^st
1921 Oct-Nov	84	80	95.2%	95^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	37	5	13.5%	38^th
1922 Mar-May	184	76	41.3%	65^th
1922 Jun-Aug	211	71	33.6%	45^th
1922 Sep-Sep	13	7	53.8%	64^th
1922 Nov-Nov	12	12	100.0%	83^rd
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	70	18	25.7%	42^nd
1921 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	27	6	22.2%	77^th
1924 Mar-May	83	16	19.3%	70^th
1924 Jun-Jun	18	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	57	26	45.6%	97^th
1926 Jan-Feb	52	26	50.0%	94^th
1926 Mar-May	50	17	34.0%	75^th
1926 Jun-Jul	38	6	15.8%	44^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	74	14	18.9%	61^st
1925 Mar-Mar	11	1	9.1%	53^rd
Dec 1927-May 1928	113	41	36.3%	93^rd
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	63	25	39.7%	83^rd
1929 May-Jun	36	15	41.7%	93^rd
1929 Sep-Sep	8	1	12.5%	57^th
1929 Oct-Nov	55	34	61.8%	95^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	95	87	91.6%	95^th
1930 Mar-May	138	118	85.5%	93^rd
1930 Jun-Jul	19	15	78.9%	86^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	58	7	12.1%	46^th
1930 Jul-Jul	9	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	60	15	25.0%	76^th
1932 Mar-May	88	7	8.0%	24^th
1932 Jun-Jul	60	9	15.0%	34^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1933 Mar-Jun	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1934 Jan-Jun	124	13	10.5%	46^th
1933 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Jan-Mar	37	1	2.7%	17^th
1935 Apr-Jun	46	3	6.5%	45^th
1935 Jul-Aug	46	4	8.7%	38^th
1936 Jan-Jun	60	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