Cochran was the representative for Missouri’s 13th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1935 to 1946.
He was previously the representative for Missouri’s at-large district as a Democrat from 1933 to 1934; the representative for Missouri’s 11th congressional district as a Democrat from 1931 to 1933; the representative for Missouri’s 11th congressional district as a Democrat from 1927 to 1931; and the representative for Missouri’s 11th congressional district as a Democrat from 1925 to 1927.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1926 to Aug 1946, Cochran missed 55 of 1,609 roll call votes, which is 3.4%. This is on par with the median of 4.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Aug 1946. 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.
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
