Elkins was a senator from West Virginia and was a Republican. He served from 1919 to 1925.
He was previously a senator from West Virginia as a Republican from 1911 to 1911.
![Photo of Sen. Davis Elkins [R-WV, 1919-1925]](/static/legislator-photos/403800-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1911 to Mar 1925, Elkins missed 796 of 1,396 roll call votes, which is 57.0%. This is much worse than the median of 26.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1925. 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
