Porter Dale, former Senator from Vermont

Dates	Title	Representing
1927-1933	Senator	Vermont
1923-1927	Senator	Vermont
1915-1923	Representative	Vermont's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1923 to Mar 1933, Dale missed 340 of 1,341 roll call votes, which is 25.4%. This is worse than the median of 17.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1933. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	54	3	5.6%	28^th
1924 Mar-May	85	4	4.7%	15^th
1924 Jun-Jun	18	2	11.1%	59^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	77	14	18.2%	67^th
1926 Jan-Feb	57	14	24.6%	70^th
1926 Mar-May	51	11	21.6%	65^th
1926 Jun-Jul	38	21	55.3%	88^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	75	21	28.0%	87^th
1925 Mar-Mar	11	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	123	46	37.4%	95^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	66	31	47.0%	91^st
1929 May-Jun	35	4	11.4%	60^th
1929 Sep-Sep	8	3	37.5%	81^st
1929 Oct-Nov	55	24	43.6%	92^nd
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	100	43	43.0%	91^st
1930 Mar-May	141	34	24.1%	61^st
1930 Jun-Jul	23	4	17.4%	45^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	62	19	30.6%	79^th
1930 Jul-Jul	9	1	11.1%	57^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1932 Mar-May	90	19	21.1%	65^th
1932 Jun-Jul	63	18	28.6%	64^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	63	4	6.3%	17^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