Prescott Bush, former Senator from Connecticut

Dates	Title	Representing
1957-1962	Senator	Connecticut
1952-1956	Senator	Connecticut

Voting Record

From Jan 1953 to Oct 1962, Bush missed 62 of 1,586 roll call votes, which is 3.9%. This is better than the median of 5.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1962. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1953 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	42	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Sep	87	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	3	11.5%	63^rd
1955 Apr-Jun	36	5	13.9%	88^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	1	4.3%	59^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	3	6.4%	80^th
1956 Apr-Jun	50	4	8.0%	78^th
1956 Jul-Jul	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	45	8	17.8%	90^th
1957 Jul-Aug	46	1	2.2%	43^rd
1958 Feb-Mar	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Apr-Jun	83	1	1.2%	39^th
1958 Jul-Aug	75	2	2.7%	51^st
1959 Jan-Apr	57	1	1.8%	41^st
1959 May-Aug	121	2	1.7%	23^rd
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	75	2	2.7%	23^rd
1960 May-Aug	121	4	3.3%	34^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	125	6	4.8%	69^th
1961 Sep-Sep	28	3	10.7%	73^rd
1962 Jan-Mar	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	59	6	10.2%	66^th
1962 Jul-Sep	120	9	7.5%	54^th
1962 Oct-Oct	17	1	5.9%	66^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