Oscar Underwood, former Senator from Alabama

Dates	Title	Representing
1915-1927	Senator	Alabama
1907-1915	Representative	Alabama's 9^th District
1905-1907	Representative	Alabama's 9^th District
1903-1905	Representative	Alabama's 9^th District
1901-1903	Representative	Alabama's 9^th District
1899-1901	Representative	Alabama's 9^th District
1895-1899	Representative	Alabama's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Dec 1915 to Mar 1927, Underwood missed 776 of 2,222 roll call votes, which is 34.9%. This is worse than the median of 19.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1927. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	37	17	45.9%	96^th
1916 Mar-May	97	30	30.9%	74^th
1916 Jun-Aug	81	28	34.6%	83^rd
1916 Sep-Sep	13	1	7.7%	39^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	153	49	32.0%	76^th
1917 Apr-Jun	57	16	28.1%	85^th
1917 Jul-Sep	95	16	16.8%	65^th
1917 Oct-Oct	9	7	77.8%	76^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	33	11	33.3%	76^th
1918 Mar-May	51	15	29.4%	42^nd
1918 Jun-Aug	41	4	9.8%	31^st
1918 Sep-Nov	19	6	31.6%	51^st
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	53	21	39.6%	73^rd
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 May-Jul	31	11	35.5%	89^th
1919 Aug-Oct	26	5	19.2%	66^th
1919 Nov-Nov	78	4	5.1%	59^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	51	19	37.3%	56^th
1920 Mar-May	99	41	41.4%	87^th
1920 Jun-Jun	19	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	86	8	9.3%	29^th
1921 Apr-Jun	51	6	11.8%	37^th
1921 Jul-Sep	39	25	64.1%	84^th
1921 Oct-Nov	87	58	66.7%	90^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	37	16	43.2%	78^th
1922 Mar-May	194	61	31.4%	52^nd
1922 Jun-Aug	205	41	20.0%	36^th
1922 Sep-Sep	15	4	26.7%	44^th
1922 Nov-Nov	12	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	66	41	62.1%	92^nd
1921 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	24	10	41.7%	95^th
1924 Mar-May	72	40	55.6%	93^rd
1924 Jun-Jun	15	10	66.7%	93^rd
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	75	18	24.0%	78^th
1926 Jan-Feb	46	29	63.0%	95^th
1926 Mar-May	40	30	75.0%	97^th
1926 Jun-Jul	36	18	50.0%	88^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	67	51	76.1%	97^th
1925 Mar-Mar	10	9	90.0%	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