Johnson was a senator from California and was a Republican. He served from 1923 to 1945.
He was previously a senator from California as a Republican from 1917 to 1923.
![Photo of Sen. Hiram Johnson [R-CA, 1923-1945]](/static/legislator-photos/406039-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Apr 1917 to Jul 1945, Johnson missed 1,422 of 4,253 roll call votes, which is 33.4%. This is much worse than the median of 13.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jul 1945. 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