Peter Gerry, former Senator from Rhode Island

Dates	Title	Representing
1935-1946	Senator	Rhode Island
1923-1929	Senator	Rhode Island
1917-1923	Senator	Rhode Island
1913-1915	Representative	Rhode Island's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Mar 1917 to Aug 1946, Gerry missed 903 of 3,360 roll call votes, which is 26.9%. This is worse than the median of 11.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1946. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1917 Apr-Jun	59	5	8.5%	25^th
1917 Jul-Sep	101	23	22.8%	75^th
1917 Oct-Oct	10	1	10.0%	25^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	7	20.6%	50^th
1918 Mar-May	53	23	43.4%	75^th
1918 Jun-Aug	40	16	40.0%	75^th
1918 Sep-Nov	19	9	47.4%	25^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	54	25	46.3%	75^th
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 May-Jul	28	22	78.6%	83^rd
1919 Aug-Oct	31	8	25.8%	67^th
1919 Nov-Nov	77	10	13.0%	67^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	52	21	40.4%	71^st
1920 Mar-May	99	15	15.2%	43^rd
1920 Jun-Jun	19	3	15.8%	43^rd
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	87	32	36.8%	71^st
1921 Apr-Jun	62	16	25.8%	57^th
1921 Jul-Sep	38	23	60.5%	86^th
1921 Oct-Nov	89	17	19.1%	43^rd
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	36	24	66.7%	88^th
1922 Mar-May	198	113	57.1%	57^th
1922 Jun-Aug	215	127	59.1%	57^th
1922 Sep-Sep	14	9	64.3%	71^st
1922 Nov-Nov	13	12	92.3%	75^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	69	33	47.8%	88^th
1921 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	71^st
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	22	7	31.8%	73^rd
1924 Mar-May	81	22	27.2%	64^th
1924 Jun-Jun	17	4	23.5%	82^nd
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	71	31	43.7%	91^st
1926 Jan-Feb	56	10	17.9%	67^th
1926 Mar-May	47	27	57.4%	91^st
1926 Jun-Jul	38	8	21.1%	73^rd
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	67	21	31.3%	92^nd
1925 Mar-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	123	22	17.9%	76^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	65	25	38.5%	78^th
1935 Jan-Mar	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Apr-Jun	48	7	14.6%	72^nd
1935 Jul-Aug	46	8	17.4%	83^rd
1936 Jan-Jun	55	7	12.7%	47^th
1937 Jan-Mar	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Apr-Jun	21	1	4.8%	10^th
1937 Jul-Aug	31	3	9.7%	57^th
1937 Nov-Dec	20	3	15.0%	64^th
1938 Jan-Jun	81	10	12.3%	33^rd
1939 Jan-Mar	17	5	29.4%	92^nd
1939 Apr-Jun	34	4	11.8%	48^th
1939 Jul-Aug	41	1	2.4%	6^th
1939 Oct-Nov	20	1	5.0%	55^th
1940 Jan-Mar	43	2	4.7%	30^th
1940 Apr-Jun	64	8	12.5%	48^th
1940 Jul-Sep	38	1	2.6%	13^th
1940 Oct-Nov	4	3	75.0%	91^st
1941 Jan-Jan	1	1	100.0%	65^th
1941 Jan-Mar	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	27	4	14.8%	50^th
1941 Jul-Sep	23	3	13.0%	42^nd
1941 Oct-Dec	21	1	4.8%	30^th
1942 Jan-Mar	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Apr-Jun	28	5	17.9%	41^st
1942 Jul-Sep	19	1	5.3%	10^th
1942 Oct-Dec	24	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Jan-Mar	18	3	16.7%	57^th
1943 Apr-Jun	51	6	11.8%	47^th
1943 Jul-Sep	20	5	25.0%	57^th
1943 Oct-Dec	30	6	20.0%	69^th
1944 Jan-Mar	51	9	17.6%	55^th
1944 Apr-Jun	23	1	4.3%	13^th
1944 Aug-Sep	7	4	57.1%	77^th
1944 Nov-Dec	17	6	35.3%	74^th
1945 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Apr-Jun	40	2	5.0%	51^st
1945 Jul-Sep	27	2	7.4%	69^th
1945 Oct-Dec	22	4	18.2%	77^th
1946 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Apr-Jun	73	2	2.7%	49^th
1946 Jul-Aug	48	2	4.2%	69^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