Edward “Bob” Bartlett, former Senator for Alaska

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Bartlett was a senator from Alaska and was a Democrat. He served from 1959 to 1968.

He was previously the representative for Alaska’s at-large district as a Democrat from 1945 to 1958.

Photo of Sen. Edward “Bob” Bartlett [D-AK, 1959-1968]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1959 to Oct 1968, Bartlett missed 432 of 2,477 roll call votes, which is 17.4%. This is worse than the median of 13.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1968. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 Jan-Apr	57	1	1.8%	37^th
1959 May-Aug	128	17	13.3%	83^rd
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	79	6	7.6%	36^th
1960 May-Aug	123	16	13.0%	82^nd
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	11	35.5%	97^th
1961 May-Aug	137	3	2.2%	18^th
1961 Sep-Sep	36	6	16.7%	60^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	4	18.2%	78^th
1962 Apr-Jun	62	9	14.5%	72^nd
1962 Jul-Sep	122	7	5.7%	27^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	1	5.6%	43^rd
1963 Jan-Mar	8	3	37.5%	95^th
1963 Apr-Jun	73	11	15.1%	71^st
1963 Jul-Sep	61	3	4.9%	21^st
1963 Oct-Dec	87	3	3.4%	6^th
1964 Jan-Mar	60	7	11.7%	75^th
1964 Apr-Jun	138	3	2.2%	45^th
1964 Jul-Sep	106	7	6.6%	44^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	32	2	6.2%	20^th
1965 Apr-Jun	106	7	6.6%	13^th
1965 Jul-Sep	106	13	12.3%	60^th
1965 Oct-Oct	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	28	4	14.3%	47^th
1966 Apr-Jun	56	5	8.9%	17^th
1966 Jul-Sep	119	57	47.9%	95^th
1966 Oct-Oct	35	3	8.6%	27^th
1967 Jan-Mar	53	11	20.8%	68^th
1967 Apr-Jun	70	11	15.7%	54^th
1967 Jul-Sep	81	9	11.1%	45^th
1967 Oct-Dec	111	19	17.1%	45^th
1968 Jan-Mar	69	15	21.7%	71^st
1968 Apr-Jun	96	43	44.8%	84^th
1968 Jul-Sep	89	88	98.9%	97^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	27	100.0%	92^nd

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

Sen. Edward “Bob” Bartlett

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