Fred Dubois, former Senator for Idaho

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Dubois was a senator from Idaho and was a Democrat. He served from 1901 to 1907.

He was previously a senator from Idaho as a Republican from 1891 to 1897; the representative for Idaho as a Republican from 1889 to 1891; and the representative for Idaho as a Republican from 1887 to 1889.

Photo of Sen. Fred Dubois [D-ID, 1901-1907]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Jan 1892 to Mar 1907, Dubois missed 430 of 1,302 roll call votes, which is 33.0%. This is on par with the median of 29.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1907. 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
1892 Jan-Mar	26	11	42.3%	50^th
1892 Apr-Jul	78	24	30.8%	31^st
Dec 1892-Mar 1893	105	19	18.1%	19^th
1893 Aug-Oct	77	35	45.5%	71^st
1894 Jan-Mar	35	15	42.9%	78^th
1894 Apr-Jul	321	102	31.8%	39^th
1894 Aug-Aug	21	16	76.2%	83^rd
Dec 1894-Mar 1895	101	45	44.6%	75^th
1893 Apr-Apr	6	1	16.7%	19^th
Dec 1895-Feb 1896	36	7	19.4%	30^th
1896 Mar-May	66	23	34.8%	52^nd
1896 Jun-Jun	24	2	8.3%	7^th
Dec 1896-Mar 1897	71	42	59.2%	85^th
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	3	11.5%	28^th
1902 Mar-May	49	12	24.5%	61^st
1902 Jun-Jun	23	4	17.4%	53^rd
1903 Jan-Mar	18	9	50.0%	75^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	1	100.0%	64^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	15	41.7%	53^rd
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	14	25.0%	57^th
1906 Jan-Feb	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1906 Mar-May	49	10	20.4%	62^nd
1906 Jun-Jun	31	13	41.9%	52^nd
1907 Jan-Mar	38	7	18.4%	31^st

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. Fred Dubois

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Missed Votes

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