Robert Broussard, former Senator from Louisiana

Dates	Title	Representing
1915-1919	Senator	Louisiana
1907-1915	Representative	Louisiana's 3^rd District
1905-1907	Representative	Louisiana's 3^rd District
1903-1905	Representative	Louisiana's 3^rd District
1901-1903	Representative	Louisiana's 3^rd District
1899-1901	Representative	Louisiana's 3^rd District
1897-1899	Representative	Louisiana's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Dec 1915 to Jun 1918, Broussard missed 294 of 633 roll call votes, which is 46.4%. This is worse than the median of 27.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1918. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	40	17	42.5%	81^st
1916 Mar-May	105	33	31.4%	58^th
1916 Jun-Aug	86	46	53.5%	81^st
1916 Sep-Sep	13	13	100.0%	87^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	156	81	51.9%	89^th
1917 Apr-Jun	59	16	27.1%	73^rd
1917 Jul-Sep	103	19	18.4%	54^th
1917 Oct-Oct	10	10	100.0%	80^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	33	33	100.0%	95^th
1918 Mar-May	26	26	100.0%	95^th
1918 Jun-Aug	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1917 Mar-Mar	1	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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo