Wayne Morse, former Senator from Oregon

Dates	Title	Representing
1957-1968	Senator	Oregon
1945-1956	Senator	Oregon

Voting Record

From Jan 1945 to Oct 1968, Morse missed 268 of 4,178 roll call votes, which is 6.4%. 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1945 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Apr-Jun	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Jul-Sep	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Oct-Dec	23	7	30.4%	79^th
1946 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Apr-Jun	69	2	2.9%	64^th
1946 Jul-Aug	48	1	2.1%	43^rd
1947 Jan-Mar	33	1	3.0%	59^th
1947 Apr-Jun	55	4	7.3%	82^nd
1947 Jul-Jul	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Nov-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Feb-Mar	26	4	15.4%	94^th
1948 Apr-Jun	73	2	2.7%	78^th
1948 Aug-Aug	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jan-Mar	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	80	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	69	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	46	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	73	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Mar	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Apr-Jun	69	2	2.9%	81^st
1951 Jul-Sep	92	2	2.2%	62^nd
1951 Oct-Oct	15	4	26.7%	92^nd
1952 Jan-Mar	11	6	54.5%	92^nd
1952 Apr-Jun	92	2	2.2%	58^th
1952 Jul-Jul	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Sep	89	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	25	1	4.0%	56^th
1955 Apr-Jun	37	2	5.4%	56^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	42	2	4.8%	68^th
1956 Jul-Jul	31	1	3.2%	71^st
1957 Jan-Mar	14	2	14.3%	93^rd
1957 Apr-Jun	45	1	2.2%	21^st
1957 Jul-Aug	43	6	14.0%	96^th
1958 Feb-Mar	36	5	13.9%	94^th
1958 Apr-Jun	84	1	1.2%	43^rd
1958 Jul-Aug	76	6	7.9%	80^th
1959 Jan-Apr	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	126	7	5.6%	65^th
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	74	10	13.5%	80^th
1960 May-Aug	117	20	17.1%	94^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	29	2	6.9%	79^th
1961 May-Aug	130	6	4.6%	71^st
1961 Sep-Sep	21	1	4.8%	53^rd
1962 Jan-Mar	19	1	5.3%	72^nd
1962 Apr-Jun	55	6	10.9%	74^th
1962 Jul-Sep	110	1	0.9%	12^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	62	5	8.1%	73^rd
1963 Jul-Sep	50	10	20.0%	90^th
1963 Oct-Dec	82	5	6.1%	54^th
1964 Jan-Mar	58	2	3.4%	50^th
1964 Apr-Jun	136	2	1.5%	54^th
1964 Jul-Sep	104	2	1.9%	27^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	31	5	16.1%	58^th
1965 Apr-Jun	100	8	8.0%	38^th
1965 Jul-Sep	105	2	1.9%	13^th
1965 Oct-Oct	15	4	26.7%	67^th
1966 Jan-Mar	27	3	11.1%	53^rd
1966 Apr-Jun	55	4	7.3%	22^nd
1966 Jul-Sep	116	7	6.0%	39^th
1966 Oct-Oct	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1967 Jan-Mar	40	3	7.5%	25^th
1967 Apr-Jun	64	3	4.7%	26^th
1967 Jul-Sep	78	5	6.4%	35^th
1967 Oct-Dec	97	12	12.4%	43^rd
1968 Jan-Mar	62	13	21.0%	77^th
1968 Apr-Jun	61	18	29.5%	76^th
1968 Jul-Sep	81	21	25.9%	68^th
1968 Oct-Oct	16	16	100.0%	92^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