Sherman Minton, former Senator from Indiana

Dates	Title	Representing
1935-1941	Senator	Indiana

Voting Record

From Jan 1935 to Jan 1941, Minton missed 31 of 625 roll call votes, which is 5.0%. This is better than the median of 14.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 1941. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1935 Jan-Mar	37	2	5.4%	40^th
1935 Apr-Jun	49	4	8.2%	46^th
1935 Jul-Aug	45	4	8.9%	46^th
1936 Jan-Jun	56	9	16.1%	63^rd
1937 Jan-Mar	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Apr-Jun	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Jul-Aug	31	1	3.2%	28^th
1937 Nov-Dec	22	2	9.1%	40^th
1938 Jan-Jun	81	3	3.7%	7^th
1939 Jan-Mar	17	1	5.9%	46^th
1939 Apr-Jun	36	1	2.8%	8^th
1939 Jul-Aug	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Oct-Nov	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	44	1	2.3%	8^th
1940 Apr-Jun	64	2	3.1%	7^th
1940 Jul-Sep	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Oct-Nov	4	1	25.0%	58^th
1941 Jan-Jan	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

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Sherman Minton [D-IN, 1935-1941] leaves office as Senator from Indiana

Jan 03, 1941

Elections and Offices

Sen. Sherman Minton [D-IN, 1935-1941] takes office as Senator from Indiana

Jan 03, 1935

Sen. Sherman Minton

Elected Positions

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

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