Rep. David King

Former Representative for Utah’s 2^nd District

King was the representative for Utah’s 2^nd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1965 to 1966.

He was previously the representative for Utah’s 2^nd congressional district as a Democrat from 1959 to 1962.

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1959 to Oct 1966, King missed 55 of 814 roll call votes, which is 6.8%. This is on par with the median of 7.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1966. 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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 Jan-Apr	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 May-Aug	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1959 Sep-Sep	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Feb-Apr	23	2	8.7%	87^th
1960 May-Aug	70	1	1.4%	58^th
1961 Jan-Apr	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	65	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Sep-Sep	29	1	3.4%	52^nd
1962 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Apr-Jun	32	2	6.2%	91^st
1962 Jul-Sep	49	3	6.1%	86^th
1962 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	28	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Apr-Jun	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jul-Sep	98	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Oct-Oct	22	3	13.6%	45^th
1966 Jan-Mar	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Apr-Jun	51	5	9.8%	39^th
1966 Jul-Sep	72	18	25.0%	69^th
1966 Oct-Oct	40	20	50.0%	70^th

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

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Missed Votes

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