Albert Cummins, former Senator for Iowa

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Cummins was a senator from Iowa and was a Republican. He served from 1915 to 1927.

He was previously a senator from Iowa as a Republican from 1908 to 1915.

Photo of Sen. Albert Cummins [R-IA, 1915-1927]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Apr 1908 to Jul 1926, Cummins missed 1,076 of 3,610 roll call votes, which is 29.8%. This is worse than the median of 22.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 1926. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1908 Mar-May	1	1	100.0%	88^th
1909 Jan-Mar	35	14	40.0%	88^th
1909 Apr-Aug	130	11	8.5%	33^rd
1910 Jan-Feb	7	3	42.9%	67^th
1910 Mar-May	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1910 Jun-Jun	41	24	58.5%	92^nd
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	52	1	1.9%	0^th
1911 May-Aug	94	11	11.7%	27^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	35	5	14.3%	40^th
1912 Apr-Jul	105	7	6.7%	12^th
1912 Aug-Aug	51	7	13.7%	25^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	111	9	8.1%	17^th
1913 Apr-Jul	38	7	18.4%	48^th
1913 Aug-Nov	109	36	33.0%	86^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	59	7	11.9%	24^th
1914 Mar-May	58	28	48.3%	76^th
1914 Jun-Aug	121	18	14.9%	29^th
1914 Sep-Oct	64	46	71.9%	86^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	44	37.6%	76^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	4	80.0%	71^st
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	40	5	12.5%	30^th
1916 Mar-May	106	29	27.4%	61^st
1916 Jun-Aug	88	15	17.0%	26^th
1916 Sep-Sep	13	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	159	23	14.5%	24^th
1917 Apr-Jun	63	9	14.3%	47^th
1917 Jul-Sep	103	50	48.5%	91^st
1917 Oct-Oct	11	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	2	5.9%	9^th
1918 Mar-May	54	18	33.3%	47^th
1918 Jun-Aug	42	11	26.2%	47^th
1918 Sep-Nov	20	3	15.0%	24^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	55	28	50.9%	86^th
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 May-Jul	31	7	22.6%	59^th
1919 Aug-Oct	31	7	22.6%	68^th
1919 Nov-Nov	80	12	15.0%	80^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	56	12	21.4%	33^rd
1920 Mar-May	103	26	25.2%	60^th
1920 Jun-Jun	19	19	100.0%	87^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	87	78	89.7%	98^th
1921 Apr-Jun	66	7	10.6%	18^th
1921 Jul-Sep	40	32	80.0%	97^th
1921 Oct-Nov	90	42	46.7%	75^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	40	11	27.5%	61^st
1922 Mar-May	199	88	44.2%	68^th
1922 Jun-Aug	215	89	41.4%	59^th
1922 Sep-Sep	15	3	20.0%	29^th
1922 Nov-Nov	13	5	38.5%	62^nd
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	72	46	63.9%	92^nd
1921 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	67^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	54	22	40.7%	54^th
1924 Mar-May	86	35	40.7%	82^nd
1924 Jun-Jun	18	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	77	11	14.3%	41^st
1926 Jan-Feb	58	23	39.7%	81^st
1926 Mar-May	51	14	27.5%	65^th
1926 Jun-Jul	38	8	21.1%	55^th
1925 Mar-Mar	11	2	18.2%	72^nd

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

Sen. Albert Cummins

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