Sen. Earle Mayfield

Former Senator for Texas

Mayfield was a senator from Texas and was a Democrat. He served from 1923 to 1929.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Earle Mayfield [D-TX, 1923-1929]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Dec 1923 to Mar 1929, Mayfield missed 141 of 662 roll call votes, which is 21.3%. This is on par with the median of 21.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1929. 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
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	54	33	61.1%	52^nd
1924 Mar-May	86	16	18.6%	61^st
1924 Jun-Jun	18	3	16.7%	73^rd
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	77	14	18.2%	61^st
1926 Jan-Feb	59	25	42.4%	86^th
1926 Mar-May	51	3	5.9%	11^th
1926 Jun-Jul	38	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	77	7	9.1%	15^th
1925 Mar-Mar	11	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	125	15	12.0%	29^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	66	25	37.9%	74^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
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo

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Voting Record

Missed Votes

Primary Sources