Thomas du Pont, former Senator from Delaware

Dates	Title	Representing
1925-1929	Senator	Delaware
1921-1923	Senator	Delaware

Voting Record

From Aug 1921 to Dec 1928, du Pont missed 679 of 840 roll call votes, which is 80.8%. This is worse than the median of 17.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 1928. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1921 Jul-Sep	23	23	100.0%	98^th
1921 Oct-Nov	88	71	80.7%	96^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	31	29	93.5%	92^nd
1922 Mar-May	190	140	73.7%	92^nd
1922 Jun-Aug	212	148	69.8%	92^nd
1922 Sep-Sep	15	1	6.7%	13^th
1926 Jan-Feb	40	39	97.5%	98^th
1926 Mar-May	28	28	100.0%	99^th
1926 Jun-Jul	34	34	100.0%	98^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	63	61	96.8%	99^th
1925 Mar-Mar	11	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	104	104	100.0%	98^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	1	1	100.0%	99^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