Robert La Follette, former Senator from Wisconsin

Dates	Title	Representing
1923-1925	Senator	Wisconsin
1906-1923	Senator	Wisconsin
1889-1891	Representative	Wisconsin's 3^rd District
1887-1889	Representative	Wisconsin's 3^rd District
1885-1887	Representative	Wisconsin's 3^rd District

Voting Record

From Jan 1906 to Mar 1925, La Follette missed 1,153 of 3,441 roll call votes, which is 33.5%. This is worse than the median of 19.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1925. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1906 Jan-Feb	8	1	12.5%	40^th
1906 Mar-May	49	5	10.2%	20^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	1	3.2%	0^th
1907 Jan-Mar	34	9	26.5%	67^th
1908 Mar-May	48	27	56.3%	75^th
1909 Jan-Mar	34	3	8.8%	0^th
1909 Apr-Aug	127	5	3.9%	17^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1910 Mar-May	36	7	19.4%	58^th
1910 Jun-Jun	35	6	17.1%	42^nd
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	50	9	18.0%	54^th
1911 May-Aug	94	7	7.4%	20^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	34	18	52.9%	87^th
1912 Apr-Jul	101	79	78.2%	94^th
1912 Aug-Aug	51	8	15.7%	56^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	109	22	20.2%	56^th
1913 Apr-Jul	38	4	10.5%	19^th
1913 Aug-Nov	109	19	17.4%	52^nd
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	52	19	36.5%	86^th
1914 Mar-May	57	13	22.8%	38^th
1914 Jun-Aug	114	94	82.5%	86^th
1914 Sep-Oct	64	64	100.0%	95^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	25	21.4%	48^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	37	9	24.3%	74^th
1916 Mar-May	98	20	20.4%	48^th
1916 Jun-Aug	85	19	22.4%	57^th
1916 Sep-Sep	13	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	154	54	35.1%	84^th
1917 Apr-Jun	60	7	11.7%	32^nd
1917 Jul-Sep	103	2	1.9%	6^th
1917 Oct-Oct	10	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	33	22	66.7%	94^th
1918 Mar-May	47	47	100.0%	94^th
1918 Jun-Aug	34	34	100.0%	94^th
1918 Sep-Nov	19	12	63.2%	84^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	54	6	11.1%	19^th
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 May-Jul	31	3	9.7%	18^th
1919 Aug-Oct	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 Nov-Nov	78	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	46	33	71.7%	91^st
1920 Mar-May	78	40	51.3%	91^st
1920 Jun-Jun	19	19	100.0%	87^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	85	5	5.9%	6^th
1921 Apr-Jun	64	2	3.1%	2^nd
1921 Jul-Sep	39	3	7.7%	5^th
1921 Oct-Nov	90	3	3.3%	11^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	38	11	28.9%	66^th
1922 Mar-May	197	60	30.5%	51^st
1922 Jun-Aug	206	133	64.6%	84^th
1922 Sep-Sep	14	7	50.0%	57^th
1922 Nov-Nov	12	2	16.7%	50^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	71	16	22.5%	38^th
1921 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	24	5	20.8%	74^th
1924 Mar-May	70	69	98.6%	98^th
1924 Jun-Jun	18	1	5.6%	35^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	68	57	83.8%	99^th
1925 Mar-Mar	8	7	87.5%	96^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