Furnifold Simmons, former Senator for North Carolina

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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 2^nd congressional district as a Democrat from 1887 to 1889.

Photo of Sen. Furnifold Simmons [D-NC, 1925-1931]

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.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1901-Feb 1902	26	4	15.4%	0^th
1902 Mar-May	49	31	63.3%	50^th
1902 Jun-Jun	23	6	26.1%	0^th
1903 Jan-Mar	18	10	55.6%	50^th
1901 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1903-Apr 1904	36	16	44.4%	75^th
Dec 1904-Mar 1905	56	17	30.4%	75^th
1906 Jan-Feb	8	1	12.5%	50^th
1906 Mar-May	49	6	12.2%	0^th
1906 Jun-Jun	31	14	45.2%	75^th
1907 Jan-Mar	38	11	28.9%	50^th
1908 Mar-May	49	24	49.0%	80^th
1909 Jan-Mar	35	8	22.9%	60^th
1909 Apr-Aug	130	30	23.1%	56^th
1910 Jan-Feb	7	3	42.9%	67^th
1910 Mar-May	36	7	19.4%	56^th
1910 Jun-Jun	41	12	29.3%	56^th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911	52	11	21.2%	50^th
1911 May-Aug	94	12	12.8%	20^th
Dec 1911-Mar 1912	35	5	14.3%	50^th
1912 Apr-Jul	105	13	12.4%	27^th
1912 Aug-Aug	51	3	5.9%	18^th
Dec 1912-Mar 1913	111	24	21.6%	62^nd
1913 Apr-Jul	38	9	23.7%	76^th
1913 Aug-Nov	109	7	6.4%	12^th
1913 Dec-Dec	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914	59	1	1.7%	6^th
1914 Mar-May	58	39	67.2%	88^th
1914 Jun-Aug	121	10	8.3%	12^th
1914 Sep-Oct	64	4	6.2%	6^th
Dec 1914-Mar 1915	117	14	12.0%	24^th
1913 Mar-Mar	5	1	20.0%	35^th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916	40	2	5.0%	12^th
1916 Mar-May	106	11	10.4%	19^th
1916 Jun-Aug	88	14	15.9%	31^st
1916 Sep-Sep	13	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1916-Mar 1917	159	47	29.6%	76^th
1917 Apr-Jun	63	11	17.5%	54^th
1917 Jul-Sep	103	9	8.7%	46^th
1917 Oct-Oct	11	1	9.1%	33^rd
Dec 1917-Feb 1918	34	3	8.8%	38^th
1918 Mar-May	54	17	31.5%	48^th
1918 Jun-Aug	42	10	23.8%	48^th
1918 Sep-Nov	20	4	20.0%	36^th
Dec 1918-Mar 1919	55	9	16.4%	24^th
1917 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1919 May-Jul	31	11	35.5%	94^th
1919 Aug-Oct	31	5	16.1%	50^th
1919 Nov-Nov	80	26	32.5%	97^th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920	56	33	58.9%	88^th
1920 Mar-May	103	27	26.2%	67^th
1920 Jun-Jun	19	2	10.5%	30^th
Dec 1920-Mar 1921	87	11	12.6%	26^th
1921 Apr-Jun	66	16	24.2%	72^nd
1921 Jul-Sep	40	16	40.0%	64^th
1921 Oct-Nov	90	33	36.7%	69^th
Dec 1921-Feb 1922	40	10	25.0%	60^th
1922 Mar-May	199	49	24.6%	43^rd
1922 Jun-Aug	215	26	12.1%	25^th
1922 Sep-Sep	15	2	13.3%	28^th
1922 Nov-Nov	13	1	7.7%	27^th
Dec 1922-Mar 1923	72	64	88.9%	98^th
1921 Mar-Mar	1	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1923-Feb 1924	54	35	64.8%	75^th
1924 Mar-May	86	10	11.6%	32^nd
1924 Jun-Jun	18	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1924-Mar 1925	77	7	9.1%	32^nd
1926 Jan-Feb	59	3	5.1%	24^th
1926 Mar-May	51	10	19.6%	56^th
1926 Jun-Jul	38	4	10.5%	36^th
Dec 1926-Mar 1927	77	47	61.0%	97^th
1925 Mar-Mar	11	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1927-May 1928	125	26	20.8%	55^th
Dec 1928-Mar 1929	66	23	34.8%	76^th
1929 May-Jun	36	1	2.8%	14^th
1929 Sep-Sep	8	2	25.0%	59^th
1929 Oct-Nov	55	7	12.7%	40^th
Dec 1929-Feb 1930	100	12	12.0%	37^th
1930 Mar-May	142	54	38.0%	74^th
1930 Jun-Jul	23	18	78.3%	80^th
Dec 1930-Mar 1931	63	47	74.6%	95^th
1930 Jul-Jul	9	9	100.0%	74^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

Sen. Furnifold Simmons

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