Leverett Saltonstall, former Senator from Massachusetts

Dates	Title	Representing
1961-1966	Senator	Massachusetts
1945-1960	Senator	Massachusetts

Voting Record

From Feb 1945 to Oct 1966, Saltonstall missed 236 of 3,785 roll call votes, which is 6.2%. This is better than the median of 8.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1966. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1945 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Apr-Jun	39	1	2.6%	22^nd
1945 Jul-Sep	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Oct-Dec	23	4	17.4%	72^nd
1946 Jan-Mar	13	1	7.7%	50^th
1946 Apr-Jun	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Jul-Aug	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Jan-Mar	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Apr-Jun	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Jul-Jul	39	1	2.6%	52^nd
1947 Nov-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Feb-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Apr-Jun	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Aug-Aug	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	80	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	79	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	76	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Mar	20	2	10.0%	77^th
1951 Apr-Jun	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jul-Sep	88	5	5.7%	74^th
1951 Oct-Oct	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jan-Mar	12	2	16.7%	84^th
1952 Apr-Jun	94	7	7.4%	87^th
1952 Jul-Jul	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	42	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Sep	86	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	5	19.2%	91^st
1955 Apr-Jun	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	1	2.1%	53^rd
1956 Apr-Jun	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	31	1	3.2%	73^rd
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	45	6	13.3%	83^rd
1957 Jul-Aug	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Feb-Mar	38	2	5.3%	61^st
1958 Apr-Jun	83	9	10.8%	89^th
1958 Jul-Aug	73	1	1.4%	49^th
1959 Jan-Apr	56	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	128	11	8.6%	78^th
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	75	5	6.7%	46^th
1960 May-Aug	118	4	3.4%	40^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	28	5	17.9%	92^nd
1961 May-Aug	132	6	4.5%	70^th
1961 Sep-Sep	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	59	7	11.9%	74^th
1962 Jul-Sep	121	28	23.1%	91^st
1962 Oct-Oct	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	2	25.0%	82^nd
1963 Apr-Jun	68	3	4.4%	47^th
1963 Jul-Sep	57	1	1.8%	13^th
1963 Oct-Dec	80	5	6.3%	54^th
1964 Jan-Mar	57	5	8.8%	84^th
1964 Apr-Jun	130	20	15.4%	97^th
1964 Jul-Sep	96	18	18.8%	87^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	29	3	10.3%	47^th
1965 Apr-Jun	104	15	14.4%	70^th
1965 Jul-Sep	96	11	11.5%	75^th
1965 Oct-Oct	15	4	26.7%	67^th
1966 Jan-Mar	26	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Apr-Jun	50	11	22.0%	68^th
1966 Jul-Sep	116	24	20.7%	74^th
1966 Oct-Oct	33	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