William Langer, former Senator from North Dakota

Dates	Title	Representing
1953-1958	Senator	North Dakota
1947-1952	Senator	North Dakota
1941-1946	Senator	North Dakota

Voting Record

From Jan 1941 to Aug 1958, Langer missed 104 of 2,408 roll call votes, which is 4.3%. This is worse than the median of 3.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1958. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1941 Jan-Mar	23	1	4.3%	79^th
1941 Apr-Jun	22	11	50.0%	93^rd
1941 Jul-Sep	23	2	8.7%	29^th
1941 Oct-Dec	21	6	28.6%	92^nd
1942 Jan-Mar	23	11	47.8%	92^nd
1942 Apr-Jun	28	8	28.6%	69^th
1942 Jul-Sep	16	8	50.0%	92^nd
1942 Oct-Dec	23	6	26.1%	46^th
1943 Jan-Mar	19	1	5.3%	25^th
1943 Apr-Jun	51	1	2.0%	13^th
1943 Jul-Sep	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Oct-Dec	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Jan-Mar	50	7	14.0%	50^th
1944 Apr-Jun	23	17	73.9%	94^th
1944 Aug-Sep	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Nov-Dec	17	2	11.8%	53^rd
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	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Jan-Mar	13	1	7.7%	54^th
1946 Apr-Jun	75	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Jul-Aug	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Apr-Jun	57	1	1.8%	46^th
1947 Jul-Jul	39	2	5.1%	76^th
1947 Nov-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Feb-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Apr-Jun	74	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Aug-Aug	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jan-Mar	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	86	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	82	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	73	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	9	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	70	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jul-Sep	93	1	1.1%	25^th
1951 Oct-Oct	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Apr-Jun	95	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jul-Jul	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	42	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	50	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	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Apr-Jun	38	2	5.3%	40^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Apr-Jun	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jul-Jul	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	14	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Apr-Jun	41	7	17.1%	86^th
1957 Jul-Aug	46	1	2.2%	40^th
1958 Feb-Mar	38	1	2.6%	41^st
1958 Apr-Jun	76	7	9.2%	80^th
1958 Jul-Aug	76	0	0.0%	0^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