Thomas Kuchel, former Senator from California

Dates	Title	Representing
1957-1968	Senator	California
1953-1956	Senator	California

Voting Record

From Jan 1953 to Oct 1968, Kuchel missed 245 of 3,109 roll call votes, which is 7.9%. This is better than the median of 9.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1968. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1953 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Sep	91	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	3	11.5%	69^th
1955 Apr-Jun	38	2	5.3%	44^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	45	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	45	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jul-Aug	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Feb-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1958 Apr-Jun	85	2	2.4%	55^th
1958 Jul-Aug	76	1	1.3%	37^th
1959 Jan-Apr	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	128	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	76	2	2.6%	15^th
1960 May-Aug	120	1	0.8%	18^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	135	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Sep-Sep	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	18	7	38.9%	99^th
1962 Apr-Jun	48	14	29.2%	96^th
1962 Jul-Sep	120	17	14.2%	84^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	70	3	4.3%	39^th
1963 Jul-Sep	50	7	14.0%	75^th
1963 Oct-Dec	85	2	2.4%	13^th
1964 Jan-Mar	56	7	12.5%	92^nd
1964 Apr-Jun	136	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Jul-Sep	105	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	29	5	17.2%	62^nd
1965 Apr-Jun	99	9	9.1%	47^th
1965 Jul-Sep	105	1	1.0%	9^th
1965 Oct-Oct	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	27	16	59.3%	98^th
1966 Apr-Jun	54	16	29.6%	80^th
1966 Jul-Sep	112	4	3.6%	26^th
1966 Oct-Oct	34	7	20.6%	53^rd
1967 Jan-Mar	52	4	7.7%	31^st
1967 Apr-Jun	70	5	7.1%	34^th
1967 Jul-Sep	71	15	21.1%	83^rd
1967 Oct-Dec	99	24	24.2%	73^rd
1968 Jan-Mar	56	10	17.9%	68^th
1968 Apr-Jun	70	41	58.6%	90^th
1968 Jul-Sep	83	19	22.9%	62^nd
1968 Oct-Oct	25	1	4.0%	32^nd

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