Edward “Bob” Bartlett, former U.S. Senator for Alaska

Dates	Title	State / District
1961-1968	Senator	Alaska
1959-1960	Senator	Alaska
1957-1958	Representative	Alaska's At-Large District
1953-1956	Representative	Alaska's At-Large District
1947-1952	Representative	Alaska's At-Large District
1945-1946	Representative	Alaska's At-Large District

Voting Record

From Jan 1959 to Oct 1968, Bartlett missed 355 of 2,477 roll call votes, which is 14.3%. This is worse than the median of 9.4% 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 Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1959 Jan-Apr	57	1	1.8%	42^nd
1959 May-Aug	128	13	10.2%	82^nd
1959 Sep-Sep	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	79	5	6.3%	42^nd
1960 May-Aug	123	12	9.8%	84^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	6	19.4%	93^rd
1961 May-Aug	137	1	0.7%	18^th
1961 Sep-Sep	36	1	2.8%	27^th
1962 Jan-Mar	22	3	13.6%	82^nd
1962 Apr-Jun	62	8	12.9%	81^st
1962 Jul-Sep	122	4	3.3%	28^th
1962 Oct-Oct	18	1	5.6%	60^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	3	37.5%	96^th
1963 Apr-Jun	73	9	12.3%	85^th
1963 Jul-Sep	61	1	1.6%	14^th
1963 Oct-Dec	87	2	2.3%	13^th
1964 Jan-Mar	60	3	5.0%	68^th
1964 Apr-Jun	138	1	0.7%	25^th
1964 Jul-Sep	106	6	5.7%	55^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1965 Jan-Mar	32	1	3.1%	8^th
1965 Apr-Jun	106	7	6.6%	27^th
1965 Jul-Sep	106	11	10.4%	73^rd
1965 Oct-Oct	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1966 Jan-Mar	28	4	14.3%	60^th
1966 Apr-Jun	56	3	5.4%	14^th
1966 Jul-Sep	119	51	42.9%	98^th
1966 Oct-Oct	35	3	8.6%	31^st
1967 Jan-Mar	53	11	20.8%	72^nd
1967 Apr-Jun	70	10	14.3%	58^th
1967 Jul-Sep	81	8	9.9%	46^th
1967 Oct-Dec	111	11	9.9%	29^th
1968 Jan-Mar	69	12	17.4%	67^th
1968 Apr-Jun	96	37	38.5%	87^th
1968 Jul-Sep	89	80	89.9%	94^th
1968 Oct-Oct	27	26	96.3%	92^nd

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
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