Engle was a senator from California and was a Democrat. He served from 1959 to 1964.
He was previously the representative for California’s 2nd congressional district as a Democrat from 1943 to 1958.
![Photo of Sen. Clair Engle [D-CA, 1959-1964]](/static/legislator-photos/403870-200px.jpeg)
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.
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
