Alben Barkley, former Senator for Kentucky

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From Dec 1927 to Apr 1956, Barkley missed 306 of 3,268 roll call votes, which is 9.4%. This is worse than the median of 6.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Apr 1956. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1927-May 1928	125	8	6.4%	0^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	66	15	22.7%	50^th
1929 May-Jun	36	3	8.3%	0^th
1929 Sep-Sep	8	1	12.5%	33^rd
1929 Oct-Nov	55	1	1.8%	0^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	100	8	8.0%	0^th
1930 Mar-May	142	23	16.2%	67^th
1930 Jun-Jul	23	2	8.7%	0^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	63	5	7.9%	0^th
1930 Jul-Jul	9	9	100.0%	33^rd
Dec 1931-Feb 1932	63	21	33.3%	75^th
1932 Mar-May	90	20	22.2%	50^th
1932 Jun-Jul	64	31	48.4%	75^th
Dec 1932-Mar 1933	63	3	4.8%	0^th
1933 Mar-Jun	97	11	11.3%	33^rd
1934 Jan-Jun	130	10	7.7%	29^th
1933 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1935 Jan-Mar	37	7	18.9%	75^th
1935 Apr-Jun	49	4	8.2%	33^rd
1935 Jul-Aug	46	4	8.7%	22^nd
1936 Jan-Jun	61	8	13.1%	33^rd
1937 Jan-Mar	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Apr-Jun	21	1	4.8%	0^th
1937 Jul-Aug	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1937 Nov-Dec	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1938 Jan-Jun	81	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Apr-Jun	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jul-Aug	41	2	4.9%	21^st
1939 Oct-Nov	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	44	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Apr-Jun	64	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jul-Sep	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Oct-Nov	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jan-Mar	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	31	17	54.8%	88^th
1941 Jul-Sep	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Oct-Dec	21	1	4.8%	44^th
1942 Jan-Mar	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Apr-Jun	28	6	21.4%	53^rd
1942 Jul-Sep	19	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Oct-Dec	24	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Jan-Mar	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Apr-Jun	52	37	71.2%	95^th
1943 Jul-Sep	20	0	0.0%	0^th
1943 Oct-Dec	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Jan-Mar	51	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Apr-Jun	23	3	13.0%	42^nd
1944 Aug-Sep	7	1	14.3%	53^rd
1944 Nov-Dec	17	10	58.8%	82^nd
1945 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Apr-Jun	40	3	7.5%	61^st
1945 Jul-Sep	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Oct-Dec	24	4	16.7%	71^st
1946 Jan-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Apr-Jun	75	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Jul-Aug	48	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Jan-Mar	34	6	17.6%	91^st
1947 Apr-Jun	57	9	15.8%	86^th
1947 Jul-Jul	39	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Nov-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Feb-Mar	28	1	3.6%	43^rd
1948 Apr-Jun	74	7	9.5%	77^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	55	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	85	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	78	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	10	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	1	3.8%	33^rd
1955 Apr-Jun	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	0	0.0%	0^th
1956 Jan-Mar	47	3	6.4%	65^th
1956 Apr-Jun	7	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

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