Bankhead was a senator from Alabama and was a Democrat. He served from 1907 to 1921.
He was previously the representative for Alabama’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1905 to 1907; the representative for Alabama’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1903 to 1905; the representative for Alabama’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1901 to 1903; the representative for Alabama’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1899 to 1901; the representative for Alabama’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1895 to 1899; the representative for Alabama’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1893 to 1895; the representative for Alabama’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1891 to 1893; the representative for Alabama’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1889 to 1891; and the representative for Alabama’s 6th congressional district as a Democrat from 1887 to 1889.
![Photo of Sen. John Bankhead [D-AL, 1907-1921]](/static/legislator-photos/401111-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1908 to Feb 1920, Bankhead missed 830 of 2,305 roll call votes, which is 36.0%. This is worse than the median of 25.8% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Feb 1920. 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
