Sen. Cordell Hull
Former Senator for Tennessee
Hull was a senator from Tennessee and was a Democrat. He served from 1931 to 1933.
He was previously the representative for Tennessee’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1927 to 1931; the representative for Tennessee’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1925 to 1927; the representative for Tennessee’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1923 to 1925; the representative for Tennessee’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1915 to 1921; and the representative for Tennessee’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1907 to 1915.
![Photo of Sen. Cordell Hull [D-TN, 1931-1933]](/static/legislator-photos/405785-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1931 to May 1933, Hull missed 88 of 281 roll call votes, which is 31.3%. This is much worse than the median of 19.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in May 1933. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
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
