Harrison was a senator from Mississippi and was a Democrat. He served from 1931 to 1941.
He was previously a senator from Mississippi as a Democrat from 1925 to 1931; a senator from Mississippi as a Democrat from 1919 to 1925; the representative for Mississippi’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1915 to 1919; and the representative for Mississippi’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1911 to 1915.
![Photo of Sen. Byron “Pat” Harrison [D-MS, 1931-1941]](/static/legislator-photos/405142-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From May 1919 to Jun 1941, Harrison missed 788 of 3,448 roll call votes, which is 22.9%. This is worse than the median of 18.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1941. 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
