Sen. Lawrence Tyson

Former Senator from Tennessee

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1925-1929	Senator	Tennessee

Voting Record

From Mar 1925 to Jul 1930, Tyson missed 74 of 434 roll call votes, which is 17.1%. This is better than the median of 19.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 1930. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1926 Jan-Feb	59	5	8.5%	39^th
1926 Mar-May	45	8	17.8%	60^th
1926 Jun-Jul	36	4	11.1%	46^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	76	9	11.8%	33^rd
1925 Mar-Mar	11	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	106	27	25.5%	77^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	64	18	28.1%	71^st
1929 May-Jun	36	2	5.6%	28^th
1930 Jul-Jul	1	1	100.0%	74^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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Lawrence Tyson [D-TN, 1925-1929] leaves office as Senator from Tennessee

Dec 31, 1929

Elections and Offices

Sen. Lawrence Tyson [D-TN, 1925-1929] takes office as Senator from Tennessee

Dec 07, 1925