Simmons was a senator from North Carolina and was a Democrat. He served from 1925 to 1931.
He was previously a senator from North Carolina as a Democrat from 1907 to 1925; a senator from North Carolina as a Democrat from 1901 to 1907; and the representative for North Carolina’s 2nd congressional district as a Democrat from 1887 to 1889.
![Photo of Sen. Furnifold Simmons [D-NC, 1925-1931]](/static/legislator-photos/409909-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1901 to Mar 1931, Simmons missed 1,138 of 4,698 roll call votes, which is 24.2%. This is on par with the median of 22.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1931. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
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
