Thomas Paynter, former Senator from Kentucky

Dates	Title	Representing
1907-1913	Senator	Kentucky
1893-1895	Representative	Kentucky's 9^th District
1891-1893	Representative	Kentucky's 9^th District
1889-1891	Representative	Kentucky's 9^th District

Voting Record

From Mar 1908 to Mar 1913, Paynter missed 277 of 708 roll call votes, which is 39.1%. This is worse than the median of 26.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1913. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1908 Mar-May	49	8	16.3%	20^th
1909 Jan-Mar	33	7	21.2%	44^th
1909 Apr-Aug	122	41	33.6%	76^th
1910 Jan-Feb	6	2	33.3%	51^st
1910 Mar-May	36	4	11.1%	28^th
1910 Jun-Jun	37	12	32.4%	60^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	49	20	40.8%	81^st
1911 May-Aug	90	39	43.3%	85^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	33	20	60.6%	91^st
1912 Apr-Jul	94	38	40.4%	59^th
1912 Aug-Aug	51	51	100.0%	89^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	108	35	32.4%	52^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