Josiah Bailey, former Senator from North Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1937-1946	Senator	North Carolina
1931-1936	Senator	North Carolina

Voting Record

From Dec 1931 to Aug 1946, Bailey missed 396 of 1,725 roll call votes, which is 23.0%. This is worse 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
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	63	8	12.7%	45^th
1932 Mar-May	86	10	11.6%	27^th
1932 Jun-Jul	54	14	25.9%	73^rd
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	61	13	21.3%	74^th
1933 Mar-Jun	92	12	13.0%	70^th
1934 Jan-Jun	121	15	12.4%	54^th
1933 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Jan-Mar	35	2	5.7%	51^st
1935 Apr-Jun	49	6	12.2%	58^th
1935 Jul-Aug	46	6	13.0%	69^th
1936 Jan-Jun	60	13	21.7%	72^nd
1937 Jan-Mar	19	1	5.3%	33^rd
1937 Apr-Jun	21	3	14.3%	50^th
1937 Jul-Aug	31	8	25.8%	86^th
1937 Nov-Dec	22	4	18.2%	67^th
1938 Jan-Jun	81	21	25.9%	74^th
1939 Jan-Mar	17	5	29.4%	92^nd
1939 Apr-Jun	32	11	34.4%	88^th
1939 Jul-Aug	36	11	30.6%	90^th
1939 Oct-Nov	20	1	5.0%	55^th
1940 Jan-Mar	40	14	35.0%	89^th
1940 Apr-Jun	64	16	25.0%	81^st
1940 Jul-Sep	38	11	28.9%	85^th
1940 Oct-Nov	4	1	25.0%	64^th
1941 Jan-Jan	1	1	100.0%	65^th
1941 Jan-Mar	22	6	27.3%	94^th
1941 Apr-Jun	30	4	13.3%	43^rd
1941 Jul-Sep	23	5	21.7%	52^nd
1941 Oct-Dec	21	7	33.3%	93^rd
1942 Jan-Mar	23	4	17.4%	63^rd
1942 Apr-Jun	28	13	46.4%	87^th
1942 Jul-Sep	19	6	31.6%	64^th
1942 Oct-Dec	24	9	37.5%	80^th
1943 Jan-Mar	20	8	40.0%	85^th
1943 Apr-Jun	49	17	34.7%	86^th
1943 Jul-Sep	19	15	78.9%	91^st
1943 Oct-Dec	29	17	58.6%	94^th
1944 Jan-Mar	51	9	17.6%	55^th
1944 Apr-Jun	20	13	65.0%	91^st
1944 Aug-Sep	6	6	100.0%	93^rd
1944 Nov-Dec	17	3	17.6%	58^th
1945 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Apr-Jun	39	1	2.6%	41^st
1945 Jul-Sep	24	3	12.5%	84^th
1945 Oct-Dec	23	12	52.2%	94^th
1946 Jan-Mar	13	1	7.7%	56^th
1946 Apr-Jun	71	27	38.0%	97^th
1946 Jul-Aug	43	3	7.0%	88^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