Reed Smoot, former Senator from Utah

Dates	Title	Representing
1927-1933	Senator	Utah
1915-1927	Senator	Utah
1903-1915	Senator	Utah

Voting Record

From Dec 1903 to Mar 1933, Smoot missed 686 of 4,771 roll call votes, which is 14.4%. This is better 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 1903-Apr 1904	36	12	33.3%	0^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	16	28.6%	0^th
1906 Jan-Feb	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1906 Mar-May	49	13	26.5%	0^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	6	19.4%	0^th
1907 Jan-Mar	38	16	42.1%	0^th
1908 Mar-May	49	10	20.4%	33^rd
1909 Jan-Mar	34	8	23.5%	33^rd
1909 Apr-Aug	126	1	0.8%	0^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	3	42.9%	50^th
1910 Mar-May	36	5	13.9%	33^rd
1910 Jun-Jun	40	6	15.0%	50^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	50	11	22.0%	57^th
1911 May-Aug	79	7	8.9%	29^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	34	1	2.9%	0^th
1912 Apr-Jul	101	6	5.9%	13^th
1912 Aug-Aug	51	2	3.9%	13^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	109	7	6.4%	20^th
1913 Apr-Jul	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1913 Aug-Nov	109	12	11.0%	43^rd
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	59	7	11.9%	29^th
1914 Mar-May	58	4	6.9%	21^st
1914 Jun-Aug	119	8	6.7%	7^th
1914 Sep-Oct	64	12	18.8%	43^rd
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	8	6.8%	7^th
1913 Mar-Mar	4	1	25.0%	62^nd
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	40	2	5.0%	14^th
1916 Mar-May	105	15	14.3%	36^th
1916 Jun-Aug	87	12	13.8%	14^th
1916 Sep-Sep	13	1	7.7%	50^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	156	8	5.1%	7^th
1917 Apr-Jun	60	6	10.0%	32^nd
1917 Jul-Sep	103	2	1.9%	9^th
1917 Oct-Oct	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1918 Mar-May	54	6	11.1%	13^th
1918 Jun-Aug	42	4	9.5%	26^th
1918 Sep-Nov	19	1	5.3%	4^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	54	7	13.0%	26^th
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 May-Jul	31	4	12.9%	26^th
1919 Aug-Oct	31	2	6.5%	19^th
1919 Nov-Nov	78	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	53	3	5.7%	4^th
1920 Mar-May	101	9	8.9%	29^th
1920 Jun-Jun	19	1	5.3%	14^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	87	8	9.2%	21^st
1921 Apr-Jun	64	8	12.5%	44^th
1921 Jul-Sep	39	9	23.1%	44^th
1921 Oct-Nov	90	9	10.0%	34^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	40	19	47.5%	81^st
1922 Mar-May	199	20	10.1%	17^th
1922 Jun-Aug	215	10	4.7%	9^th
1922 Sep-Sep	15	1	6.7%	12^th
1922 Nov-Nov	13	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	70	16	22.9%	42^nd
1921 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	54	1	1.9%	7^th
1924 Mar-May	85	14	16.5%	67^th
1924 Jun-Jun	18	2	11.1%	59^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	76	11	14.5%	60^th
1926 Jan-Feb	59	5	8.5%	37^th
1926 Mar-May	51	6	11.8%	44^th
1926 Jun-Jul	37	29	78.4%	94^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	75	34	45.3%	96^th
1925 Mar-Mar	10	3	30.0%	90^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	124	26	21.0%	78^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	66	28	42.4%	87^th
1929 May-Jun	36	11	30.6%	91^st
1929 Sep-Sep	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1929 Oct-Nov	55	3	5.5%	29^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	100	4	4.0%	17^th
1930 Mar-May	141	36	25.5%	67^th
1930 Jun-Jul	22	18	81.8%	92^nd
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	61	27	44.3%	89^th
1930 Jul-Jul	9	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	40	8	20.0%	64^th
1932 Mar-May	90	14	15.6%	50^th
1932 Jun-Jul	64	19	29.7%	66^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	63	22	34.9%	82^nd

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