Robert Bacon, former Representative from New York's 1st District

Dates	Title	Representing
1937-1938	Representative	New York's 1^st District
1935-1936	Representative	New York's 1^st District
1931-1934	Representative	New York's 1^st District
1927-1931	Representative	New York's 1^st District
1925-1927	Representative	New York's 1^st District
1923-1925	Representative	New York's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Dec 1923 to Jun 1938, Bacon missed 106 of 1,020 roll call votes, which is 10.4%. This is worse than the median of 9.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Jun 1938. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	30	1	3.3%	66^th
1924 Mar-May	85	3	3.5%	23^rd
1924 Jun-Jun	10	1	10.0%	46^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	54	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1925-Feb 1926	20	1	5.0%	69^th
1926 Mar-May	37	1	2.7%	41^st
1926 Jun-Jul	21	4	19.0%	84^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	33	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	50	9	18.0%	68^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	17	4	23.5%	67^th
1929 Apr-Jun	12	1	8.3%	50^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	5	2	40.0%	81^st
1930 Mar-May	26	5	19.2%	56^th
1930 Jun-Jul	21	3	14.3%	52^nd
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	32	1	3.1%	22^nd
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	16	2	12.5%	63^rd
1932 Mar-May	35	3	8.6%	60^th
1932 Jun-Jul	26	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	34	2	5.9%	40^th
1933 Mar-Jun	50	6	12.0%	95^th
1934 Jan-Jun	70	19	27.1%	87^th
1935 Jan-Mar	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Apr-Jun	39	1	2.6%	50^th
1935 Jul-Aug	54	5	9.3%	78^th
1936 Jan-Jun	74	13	17.6%	51^st
1937 Jan-Mar	17	2	11.8%	64^th
1937 Apr-Jun	35	10	28.6%	84^th
1937 Jul-Aug	21	6	28.6%	72^nd
1937 Dec-Dec	8	1	12.5%	94^th
1938 Jan-Jun	59	0	0.0%	0^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