Barkley was a senator from Kentucky and was a Democrat. He served from 1955 to 1956.
He was previously Vice President of the United States (and President of the Senate) as a Democratic from 1949 to 1953; a senator from Kentucky as a Democrat from 1927 to 1949; the representative for Kentucky’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1925 to 1927; the representative for Kentucky’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1923 to 1925; the representative for Kentucky’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1915 to 1923; and the representative for Kentucky’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1913 to 1915.
![Photo of Sen. Alben Barkley [D-KY, 1955-1956]](/static/legislator-photos/401146-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
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.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- 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
