Robert Taylor, former Senator from Tennessee

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1913	Senator	Tennessee
1879-1881	Representative	Tennessee's 1^st District

Voting Record

From Mar 1908 to Mar 1912, Taylor missed 177 of 465 roll call votes, which is 38.1%. This is worse than the median of 26.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1912. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1908 Mar-May	49	29	59.2%	74^th
1909 Jan-Mar	34	12	35.3%	69^th
1909 Apr-Aug	124	51	41.1%	87^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	3	42.9%	57^th
1910 Mar-May	36	7	19.4%	46^th
1910 Jun-Jun	41	25	61.0%	78^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	50	14	28.0%	56^th
1911 May-Aug	92	14	15.2%	43^rd
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	32	22	68.8%	97^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