Thomas Burch, former Senator from Virginia

Dates	Title	Representing
1946-1946	Senator	Virginia
1939-1944	Representative	Virginia's 5^th District
1937-1938	Representative	Virginia's 5^th District
1935-1936	Representative	Virginia's 5^th District
1933-1934	Representative	Virginia
1931-1933	Representative	Virginia's 5^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1945 to Aug 1946, Burch missed 33 of 115 roll call votes, which is 28.7%. This is worse 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
1945 Jan-Mar	3	3	100.0%	94^th
1945 Apr-Jun	9	9	100.0%	96^th
1945 Jul-Sep	6	4	66.7%	97^th
1945 Oct-Dec	16	16	100.0%	96^th
1946 Apr-Jun	33	1	3.0%	55^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