Murphy Foster, former Senator from Louisiana

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1913	Senator	Louisiana
1901-1907	Senator	Louisiana

Voting Record

From Mar 1901 to Mar 1913, Foster missed 439 of 1,009 roll call votes, which is 43.5%. This is worse than the median of 26.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1913. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	9	34.6%	77^th
1902 Mar-May	46	14	30.4%	73^rd
1902 Jun-Jun	23	3	13.0%	50^th
1903 Jan-Mar	16	10	62.5%	91^st
1901 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	35	16	45.7%	64^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	55	9	16.4%	48^th
1906 Jan-Feb	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1906 Mar-May	49	8	16.3%	59^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	17	54.8%	71^st
1907 Jan-Mar	38	26	68.4%	92^nd
1908 Mar-May	42	22	52.4%	69^th
1909 Jan-Mar	34	19	55.9%	87^th
1909 Apr-Aug	115	25	21.7%	63^rd
1910 Jan-Feb	7	2	28.6%	31^st
1910 Mar-May	31	18	58.1%	84^th
1910 Jun-Jun	32	32	100.0%	85^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	48	21	43.8%	85^th
1911 May-Aug	91	12	13.2%	38^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	33	10	30.3%	68^th
1912 Apr-Jul	95	61	64.2%	88^th
1912 Aug-Aug	49	46	93.9%	85^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	104	59	56.7%	85^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