Robert La Follette Jr., former Senator from Wisconsin

Dates	Title	Representing
1935-1946	Senator	Wisconsin
1925-1934	Senator	Wisconsin

Voting Record

From Jan 1926 to Aug 1946, La Follette missed 228 of 2,556 roll call votes, which is 8.9%. This is better than the median of 11.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1946. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1926 Jan-Feb	59	1	1.7%	8^th
1926 Mar-May	50	3	6.0%	0^th
1926 Jun-Jul	38	3	7.9%	9^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	72	14	19.4%	50^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	122	2	1.6%	6^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	55	41	74.5%	94^th
1929 May-Jun	35	1	2.9%	18^th
1929 Sep-Sep	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1929 Oct-Nov	55	2	3.6%	24^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1930 Mar-May	133	8	6.0%	17^th
1930 Jun-Jul	23	1	4.3%	6^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	59	1	1.7%	0^th
1930 Jul-Jul	9	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	61	2	3.3%	14^th
1932 Mar-May	87	12	13.8%	50^th
1932 Jun-Jul	59	10	16.9%	36^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	61	8	13.1%	57^th
1933 Mar-Jun	92	7	7.6%	37^th
1934 Jan-Jun	123	10	8.1%	36^th
1933 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Jan-Mar	36	4	11.1%	71^st
1935 Apr-Jun	48	2	4.2%	19^th
1935 Jul-Aug	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1936 Jan-Jun	60	8	13.3%	50^th
1937 Jan-Mar	18	3	16.7%	69^th
1937 Apr-Jun	21	5	23.8%	74^th
1937 Jul-Aug	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Nov-Dec	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1938 Jan-Jun	79	6	7.6%	21^st
1939 Jan-Mar	17	1	5.9%	52^nd
1939 Apr-Jun	36	2	5.6%	21^st
1939 Jul-Aug	40	1	2.5%	17^th
1939 Oct-Nov	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	44	1	2.3%	6^th
1940 Apr-Jun	59	4	6.8%	26^th
1940 Jul-Sep	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Oct-Nov	4	3	75.0%	91^st
1941 Jan-Jan	1	1	100.0%	65^th
1941 Jan-Mar	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	31	5	16.1%	51^st
1941 Jul-Sep	23	1	4.3%	17^th
1941 Oct-Dec	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Jan-Mar	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Apr-Jun	25	6	24.0%	59^th
1942 Jul-Sep	17	5	29.4%	59^th
1942 Oct-Dec	22	6	27.3%	66^th
1943 Jan-Mar	20	3	15.0%	48^th
1943 Apr-Jun	51	2	3.9%	14^th
1943 Jul-Sep	20	4	20.0%	49^th
1943 Oct-Dec	24	18	75.0%	98^th
1944 Jan-Mar	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Apr-Jun	23	5	21.7%	50^th
1944 Aug-Sep	6	5	83.3%	91^st
1944 Nov-Dec	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Apr-Jun	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Jul-Sep	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Oct-Dec	23	1	4.3%	32^nd
1946 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Apr-Jun	75	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Jul-Aug	48	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