John Kee, former Representative for West Virginia's 5th Congressional District

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Kee was the representative for West Virginia’s 5^th congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1933 to 1952.

Photo of Rep. John Kee [D-WV5, 1933-1952]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1933 to May 1951, Kee missed 194 of 1,744 roll call votes, which is 11.1%. This is much worse than the median of 3.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in May 1951. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1933 Mar-Jun	61	6	9.8%	73^rd
1934 Jan-Jun	82	15	18.3%	66^th
1935 Jan-Mar	32	1	3.1%	42^nd
1935 Apr-Jun	40	1	2.5%	21^st
1935 Jul-Aug	60	3	5.0%	46^th
1936 Jan-Jun	80	80	100.0%	99^th
1937 Jan-Mar	19	11	57.9%	97^th
1937 Apr-Jun	41	17	41.5%	92^nd
1937 Jul-Aug	28	8	28.6%	66^th
1937 Dec-Dec	9	0	0.0%	0^th
1938 Jan-Jun	61	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jan-Mar	30	1	3.3%	29^th
1939 Apr-Jun	42	0	0.0%	0^th
1939 Jul-Aug	16	2	12.5%	84^th
1939 Oct-Nov	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jan-Mar	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Apr-Jun	63	0	0.0%	0^th
1940 Jul-Sep	28	2	7.1%	54^th
1940 Oct-Dec	10	1	10.0%	29^th
1941 Jan-Mar	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Jul-Aug	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1941 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1942 Jan-Mar	26	1	3.8%	64^th
1942 Apr-Jun	30	2	6.7%	67^th
1942 Jul-Sep	11	3	27.3%	85^th
1942 Oct-Nov	5	1	20.0%	74^th
1943 Jan-Mar	17	3	17.6%	89^th
1943 Apr-Jun	49	8	16.3%	86^th
1943 Jul-Sep	13	1	7.7%	70^th
1943 Oct-Dec	12	8	66.7%	99^th
1944 Jan-Mar	23	4	17.4%	85^th
1944 Apr-Jun	32	2	6.2%	56^th
1944 Sep-Sep	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1944 Nov-Dec	7	1	14.3%	40^th
1945 Jan-Mar	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Apr-Jun	40	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Jul-Sep	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1945 Oct-Dec	22	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Jan-Mar	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Apr-Jun	53	0	0.0%	0^th
1946 Jul-Aug	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Jan-Mar	24	1	4.2%	76^th
1947 Apr-Jun	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1947 Jul-Jul	22	1	4.5%	80^th
1947 Nov-Dec	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Jan-Mar	21	0	0.0%	0^th
1948 Apr-Jun	54	2	3.7%	60^th
1948 Aug-Aug	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jan-Mar	35	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	27	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	43	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	16	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	54	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	30	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	59	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Mar	12	1	8.3%	75^th
1951 Apr-Jun	16	7	43.8%	99^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

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Rep. John Kee

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Missed Votes

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