Nathan Goff, former Senator from West Virginia

Dates	Title	Representing
1913-1919	Senator	West Virginia
1887-1889	Representative	West Virginia's 1^st District
1885-1887	Representative	West Virginia's 1^st District
1883-1885	Representative	West Virginia's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Apr 1913 to Mar 1919, Goff missed 1,205 of 1,322 roll call votes, which is 91.1%. This is worse than the median of 27.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1919. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1913 Apr-Jul	37	22	59.5%	88^th
1913 Aug-Nov	109	106	97.2%	96^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	1	100.0%	75^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	58	27	46.6%	91^st
1914 Mar-May	58	53	91.4%	97^th
1914 Jun-Aug	119	102	85.7%	91^st
1914 Sep-Oct	64	61	95.3%	90^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	84	71.8%	97^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	38	38	100.0%	97^th
1916 Mar-May	103	102	99.0%	99^th
1916 Jun-Aug	87	87	100.0%	99^th
1916 Sep-Sep	13	13	100.0%	87^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	155	151	97.4%	99^th
1917 Apr-Jun	56	56	100.0%	97^th
1917 Jul-Sep	99	99	100.0%	97^th
1917 Oct-Oct	10	10	100.0%	80^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	33	33	100.0%	95^th
1918 Mar-May	53	53	100.0%	95^th
1918 Jun-Aug	40	39	97.5%	96^th
1918 Sep-Nov	19	15	78.9%	89^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	53	53	100.0%	98^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