Sen. Clair Engle

Former Senator from California, Democrat

Engle, a Democrat, was a senator from California from 1959 to 1964.

He was previously the representative for California's 2^nd congressional district (1943-1958).

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1959 to Jun 1964, Engle missed 324 of 1,277 roll call votes, which is 25.4%. This is much worse than the median of 8.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1964. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 Jan-Apr	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	128	7	5.5%	42^nd
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	79	2	2.5%	9^th
1960 May-Aug	123	10	8.1%	53^rd
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	137	16	11.7%	76^th
1961 Sep-Sep	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	2	9.1%	59^th
1962 Apr-Jun	62	9	14.5%	68^th
1962 Jul-Sep	122	20	16.4%	66^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	2	11.1%	64^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	2	25.0%	76^th
1963 Apr-Jun	73	20	27.4%	95^th
1963 Jul-Sep	61	31	50.8%	99^th
1963 Oct-Dec	87	64	73.6%	99^th
1964 Jan-Mar	60	18	30.0%	95^th
1964 Apr-Jun	138	121	87.7%	99^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election 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

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Sen. Clair Engle

Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources