Miles Poindexter, former Senator from Washington

Dates	Title	Representing
1911-1923	Senator	Washington
1909-1911	Representative	Washington's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From May 1911 to Mar 1923, Poindexter missed 636 of 2,851 roll call votes, which is 22.3%. This is better than the median of 27.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1923. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1911 May-Aug	93	12	12.9%	52^nd
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	30	6	20.0%	68^th
1912 Apr-Jul	98	25	25.5%	55^th
1912 Aug-Aug	49	10	20.4%	61^st
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	109	15	13.8%	34^th
1913 Apr-Jul	38	17	44.7%	85^th
1913 Aug-Nov	107	28	26.2%	61^st
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	59	6	10.2%	24^th
1914 Mar-May	58	5	8.6%	7^th
1914 Jun-Aug	119	38	31.9%	46^th
1914 Sep-Oct	64	7	10.9%	12^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	116	34	29.3%	46^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	5	100.0%	73^rd
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1916 Mar-May	105	3	2.9%	2^nd
1916 Jun-Aug	80	15	18.8%	28^th
1916 Sep-Sep	12	12	100.0%	91^st
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	156	15	9.6%	9^th
1917 Apr-Jun	60	3	5.0%	11^th
1917 Jul-Sep	103	2	1.9%	5^th
1917 Oct-Oct	10	1	10.0%	31^st
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	33	4	12.1%	39^th
1918 Mar-May	54	4	7.4%	5^th
1918 Jun-Aug	42	3	7.1%	14^th
1918 Sep-Nov	19	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	54	8	14.8%	22^nd
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 May-Jul	31	6	19.4%	44^th
1919 Aug-Oct	31	3	9.7%	23^rd
1919 Nov-Nov	76	3	3.9%	46^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	53	15	28.3%	41^st
1920 Mar-May	100	47	47.0%	84^th
1920 Jun-Jun	19	7	36.8%	59^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	87	1	1.1%	1^st
1921 Apr-Jun	63	3	4.8%	7^th
1921 Jul-Sep	39	7	17.9%	23^rd
1921 Oct-Nov	90	8	8.9%	22^nd
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	40	4	10.0%	15^th
1922 Mar-May	199	65	32.7%	52^nd
1922 Jun-Aug	211	153	72.5%	85^th
1922 Sep-Sep	12	12	100.0%	82^nd
1922 Nov-Nov	13	2	15.4%	37^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	71	22	31.0%	51^st
1921 Mar-Mar	1	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