Thomas Sterling, former Senator from South Dakota

Dates	Title	Representing
1913-1925	Senator	South Dakota

Voting Record

From Mar 1913 to Mar 1925, Sterling missed 531 of 2,667 roll call votes, which is 19.9%. This is better than the median of 21.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1925. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1913 Apr-Jul	38	7	18.4%	50^th
1913 Aug-Nov	109	17	15.6%	43^rd
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	48	12	25.0%	57^th
1914 Mar-May	58	13	22.4%	29^th
1914 Jun-Aug	119	20	16.8%	29^th
1914 Sep-Oct	64	32	50.0%	61^st
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	115	37	32.2%	61^st
1913 Mar-Mar	5	5	100.0%	75^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	40	11	27.5%	80^th
1916 Mar-May	105	17	16.2%	27^th
1916 Jun-Aug	87	6	6.9%	7^th
1916 Sep-Sep	13	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	151	56	37.1%	81^st
1917 Apr-Jun	58	6	10.3%	27^th
1917 Jul-Sep	102	10	9.8%	44^th
1917 Oct-Oct	8	2	25.0%	63^rd
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	32	14	43.8%	78^th
1918 Mar-May	51	15	29.4%	42^nd
1918 Jun-Aug	42	6	14.3%	28^th
1918 Sep-Nov	19	3	15.8%	30^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	49	21	42.9%	70^th
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 May-Jul	27	4	14.8%	39^th
1919 Aug-Oct	29	9	31.0%	77^th
1919 Nov-Nov	78	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	50	4	8.0%	11^th
1920 Mar-May	100	9	9.0%	26^th
1920 Jun-Jun	19	2	10.5%	25^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	80	15	18.8%	47^th
1921 Apr-Jun	62	6	9.7%	23^rd
1921 Jul-Sep	38	1	2.6%	4^th
1921 Oct-Nov	88	50	56.8%	79^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	39	3	7.7%	18^th
1922 Mar-May	199	30	15.1%	22^nd
1922 Jun-Aug	211	24	11.4%	18^th
1922 Sep-Sep	15	1	6.7%	9^th
1922 Nov-Nov	13	2	15.4%	36^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	71	14	19.7%	28^th
1921 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	54	14	25.9%	76^th
1924 Mar-May	83	27	32.5%	79^th
1924 Jun-Jun	18	1	5.6%	32^nd
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	77	5	6.5%	20^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

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Sen. Thomas Sterling [R-SD, 1913-1925] leaves office as Senator from South Dakota

Mar 03, 1925

Elections and Offices

Sen. Thomas Sterling [R-SD, 1913-1925] takes office as Senator from South Dakota

Apr 07, 1913

Sen. Thomas Sterling

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