Sen. Frank Cannon

Former Senator for Utah

Cannon was a senator from Utah and was a Silver Republican. He served from 1896 to 1899.

He was previously the representative for Utah as a Republican from 1895 to 1896.

Bioguide

Photo of Sen. Frank Cannon [S-UT, 1896-1899]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Feb 1896 to Mar 1899, Cannon missed 268 of 568 roll call votes, which is 47.2%. This is worse than the median of 33.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1899. 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 1895-Feb 1896	26	6	23.1%	39^th
1896 Mar-May	66	21	31.8%	48^th
1896 Jun-Jun	24	11	45.8%	56^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	71	10	14.1%	4^th
1897 Mar-Jul	200	136	68.0%	88^th
Dec 1897-Feb 1898	26	3	11.5%	20^th
1898 Mar-May	51	20	39.2%	64^th
1898 Jun-Jul	53	11	20.8%	39^th
Dec 1898-Mar 1899	51	50	98.0%	96^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