Clair Engle, former U.S. Senator for California

Dates	Title / State / District
1959-1964	Senator, California
1957-1958	Representative, California's 2^nd District
1953-1956	Representative, California's 2^nd District
1947-1952	Representative, California's 2^nd District
1943-1946	Representative, California's 2^nd District

Voting Record

From Jan 1959 to Jun 1964, Engle missed 198 of 1,142 roll call votes, which is 17.3%. This is worse than the median of 5.3% 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 Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 Jan-Apr	57	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	124	3	2.4%	32^nd
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	77	2	2.6%	12^th
1960 May-Aug	121	9	7.4%	66^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	126	5	4.0%	66^th
1961 Sep-Sep	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	21	1	4.8%	61^st
1962 Apr-Jun	59	6	10.2%	70^th
1962 Jul-Sep	115	13	11.3%	76^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	2	11.1%	76^th
1963 Jan-Mar	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	65	14	21.5%	97^th
1963 Jul-Sep	50	22	44.0%	99^th
1963 Oct-Dec	68	46	67.6%	99^th
1964 Jan-Mar	57	16	28.1%	98^th
1964 Apr-Jun	76	59	77.6%	99^th

Primary Sources

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

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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